Panorama Gardens Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this facility also earned an elite long-term care grade. We gave it one of our higher grades in that category, with an A-. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also excelled in inspections. We gave it an A- for that category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this facility a solid grade in the category of short-term care, with a grade of B-. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most important for people in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing. This means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The next category we scored is nursing. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in that category. We weighed the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in determining our rating in this category. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we like to look at quality-based metrics, such as the percentage of residents who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are indicators of the quality of nursing care.