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 awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. There are a number of subcategories included in this grade. Many of the criteria relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Switching gears to our next category, this nursing home also performed admirably in the long-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. This completed a straight A profile. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 80.48781 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.