Pride Tlc

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 scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home performed remarkably in our short-term care rating. We awarded them a dominant grade of A+ in this area. Short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

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. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.