Overlook Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

This facility received a quality overall grade as described above, but we especially would like to emphasize its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a score of A- for our short-term care grade. In forming these short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. This nursing home was awarded an impressive long-term care score, with a grade of B in the category. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 96.031746 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we assessed is nursing, in which this facility was awarded a B-. Although this wound up being its lowest category grade, this is still not a bad grade. Our nursing score analyzes several factors, but the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. While this facility did not have as many nursing hours as many of the other facilities we looked at, it was still better than average in the area of avoiding major falls. This is generally an indicator of how carefully a facility's nursing staff is tending to its residents. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses and better safety protocols are in place.