Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital Ltcu

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this nursing home received an A+ in our short-term care rating. In calculating these short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Adding to its top-shelf assessment, this facility also was given a strong long-term care grade, with a score of A-. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 92.207794 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Tallying another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it received an A-. Few facilities fared better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our last category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. This rounded out an elite report card. The nursing rating includes a handful of data points, however, the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.