Elevation Health & Rehabilitation Center

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of A. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

The second highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. Our nursing score is largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, although this place got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this statistic.

This nursing home's next highest category ended up being its short-term care grade, where it was given a grade of B-. In forming our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The final category we analyzed is long-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this facility a D in that category. Sadly, this grade pulled down the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. One of the data points we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 90 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.