Orchard Post Acute Care

We awarded this nursing home one of our better scores in the area of nursing, with an A-. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are seeing patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also gave this nursing home a favorable score in short-term care. This facility received a grade of B+ in this area, which turns out to be one of our better grades. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility received its third highest category grade in the category of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 95.12195 percent of its residents. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the last category of inspections, this facility really did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in this category. This ended up really pulling this facility's overall grade down as we heavily weight this category. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We suggest you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, we want to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently totaling more than $100,000. This typically indicates that a facility's bad track record spanned more than one year.