Orchard Creek Skilled Nursing

In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home received high marks for short-term care as well. As a result, it received our highest score in that category with a score of A+. Our short-term care grade is typically used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

To complement its high-end accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care grade. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. This place is off the charts in this area.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we gave it an A for that category. This topped off this place's straight A report card. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.