Prestige Care and Rehabilitation of Reedwood

In addition to faring well in its overall grade, this facility received an excellent inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our best scores in this area with an A. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS 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.

This nursing home also received a dominant long-term care score. Indeed, this is this facility's second strongest category score. In that category, this facility received a score of A. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.31507 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening health condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home does not take any chances. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing rating weighs a handful of subcategories, but the main consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning residents at least once a day.

The last category we rated was short-term care. We gave this facility one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a B. Even though this is not on par with a few of its other scores, it is nevertheless a perfectly acceptable grade. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.