Powerback Rehabilitation

This nursing home excelled at short-term care, with an impressive grade of A in this category. Short-term care grades are meaningful for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received a very favorable inspection grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 11 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

The final area we scored is long-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. Unfortunately, this category hurt the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated just 29.06404 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.