Powerback Rehabilitation

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. There are numerous subcategories within this area. Most of these criteria relate to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also received an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few facilities to be given multiple A+ category grades. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This facility has earned near flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this area. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple relatively minor dings are not the end of the world.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a B-. This actually was this nursing home's worst area. This is nevertheless not the end of the world. In computing our long-term care scores, we look at the assistance with daily living received by the facility's residents. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.