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One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our short-term care scores are important for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility also received a nearly flawless inspection. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that area with an A+. This is one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+ category grades. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its high-end profile, this facility also was awarded a strong long-term care grade, with a grade of A. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the final category we looked at, this facility was given a very favorable grade of A in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home finished off a straight A report card. We analyzed the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses were with residents, in calculating our grade in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.