Pebblebrook Health Center at Park Springs

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. In determining a facility's nursing score, we assess the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, this facility received dominant marks in the area of long-term care. Consequently, it was given one of our best scores in that category with a score of A+. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 96.72131 percent of its residents, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on our third category, this nursing home was given an excellent short-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A in that category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we gave this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. With this score, the nursing home completes its straight A report card. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.