Johanna Shores

One of the many reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is that it received an impressive grade in inspections. Inspections ended up being its best category. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This facility also received a very strong short-term care grade. In fact, this ended up being this facility's second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A. With our short-term care category, we strive to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. The nursing score weighs quite a few components, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a resident at least once a day.

The last area we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of C. While this turned out to be its least impressive category grade, this is still not a terrible score. Our long-term care scores are more critical for people needing more traditional assistance related to activities of daily living. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 95.46436 percent of its residents, which is better than most nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.