Orange Health Care Center

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few facilities performed this well in this category. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its top-shelf assessments in other areas, we awarded this facility a score of A- for its long-term care grade. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. This facility fared well enough in these metrics to receive an encouraging grade in this area.

This nursing home was given a favorable short-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better grades in that category with a grade of B+. Short-term care grades are vital for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next area we analyzed was nursing. We awarded this facility one of our better scores in that category, with a B. Even though this was not as favorable as a few of its other grades, it is still an excellent grade. Nursing ratings are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.