Our Island Home

One of the reasons this nursing home performed well overall is that it fared well in the area of inspections, with a grade of B+ in that area. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

An additional strong feature for this facility is that it was awarded an impressive long-term care score. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 94.96403 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also received a favorable short-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this area. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next category we scored is nursing, in which this facility received a B. This nursing home did not end up having any weak spots. Nursing grades are mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures 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 nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a patient more often.