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The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. Its inspection score was far better than its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A-. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We also awarded this facility an impressive score in short-term care. This facility earned a grade of B in this area, which is one of our more impressive grades. Short-term care grades are typically employed to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. When calculating a facility's nursing grade, we assess the number of hours nurses are seeing patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

The last area we looked at was long-term care, is this nursing home's weakest area. We awarded this facility a D in this area. This really is one of the couple of weak points on an otherwise strong report card. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home vaccinated 95.57522 percent of its residents, which is an above average total. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.