Philip Nursing Home

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also earned A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections were virtually perfect. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was given an impressive short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that area with a grade of B+. With our short-term care grade, we endeavor to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home rather than remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our higher grades in our long-term care category as well, with a B+. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.01961 percent of its patients, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next area we rated was nursing. This nursing home was awarded a very good nursing rating in our assessment, with a grade of B. Although this is not nearly as good as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of our better grades in this area. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This place provided 4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Approximately one quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are among the most highly skilled levels of nurses. Both are impressive figures, which typically corresponds with higher quality care. Lastly, we also looked at nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.