New Albany SeniorLife Neighborhood

This facility earned an inspection grade which is stronger than its overall rating. Inspection scores are associated with the nursing home's recent government inspections. We awarded this nursing home a very solid grade of B in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

The next highest area we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The key is determining what bearing this had on quality of care. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. There are several criteria included in this grade. Many of these factors are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing grades also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

The last area we analyzed is long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in that area. This is not a bad grade in this area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinates 96.276596 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.