Orchard Grove Health Campus

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also earned A+ government inspections recently. Its inspections were virtually flawless. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its top-shelf assessments in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care rating. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.45763 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also was given a top-shelf short-term care grade. This actually ended up being this facility's third best category score. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In the last category we graded, this nursing home received a very strong grade of A- in our nursing category. With this score, the facility rounded out a straight A report card. There are a host of criteria included in this category. Many of the factors reflect levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.