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On top of receiving a strong overall rating, this nursing home performed even better in our inspections category which is associated with the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A for this category, which is one of our highest grades. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem 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.

This nursing home truly excelled in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Only a select group of nursing homes performed better in this category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 86.23188 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we anticipated. 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 less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. There are quite a few criteria within this grade. Many of the subcategories reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a low total compared with most facilities. Finally, although this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of our quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed well in this subcategory.

The next area we graded ended up being this nursing home's worst category. However, even in its worst category we still gave it a respectable grade of C in our short-term care category. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. It doesn't look like this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.