Prairieview at the Garlands

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility received high marks in the category of short-term care as well. It received our highest grade in that category with an A+. With our short-term care category, we endeavor to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also gave this nursing home a score of A+ for its long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.454544 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. 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 only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing grade is mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another impressive feature for this place is its inspection grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A, finishing off its straight A performance. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.