Presbyterian Center for Cont Care

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider 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.

We also wanted to point out the fact that this facility performed remarkably in our short-term care category. We awarded them an exemplary score of A+ in this category. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Contributing to its first-rate assessment, this nursing home also was given a superb long-term care grade, with a grade of A. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to our final area, this nursing home also excelled in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A for this area. This completed a straight A report card. When computing a facility's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses spend with patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as good measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.