Seward Mountain Haven

In addition to earning a great overall score, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with an A. In computing a facility's nursing grade, we assess the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. We awarded it an A for that category. Our inspection grades are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's inspections. Facilities that score well in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This facility also excelled in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Only a select group of nursing homes fared better in this area. Short-term care grades are commonly used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The last category we assessed was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a C. This actually ended up being this nursing home's weakest area. This is still nothing to be ashamed of. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. One of the data points we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to only 84.72222 percent of its residents. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.