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We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home received an impressive grade of A in our short-term care category. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most meaningful for those in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Not many nursing homes performed as well in this area. Our inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple relatively minor dings are not something to panic about.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Nursing ratings are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we looked at is long-term care. We awarded this facility one of our higher grades in that area, with a grade of B. Even though this is not on par with several of this nursing home's other grades, it is nevertheless a positive score. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 94.28571 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.