Payette Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive short-term care score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A. In our short-term care category, we endeavor to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Contributing to its superb resume, this facility also performed well in our long-term care area. In fact, it received a score of A in that area. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on to the last area, this nursing home also performed well in the nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B+ for this area. This completed a first-rate profile. We weighed the qualifications of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.