Pruitthealth - Toomsboro

To pair with a strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspection category. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. It doesn't appear that we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to this facility's list of strengths, it also was awarded a superb long-term care score. We awarded them a dominant grade of A- in this area. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.431816 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home 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 one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also gave this facility a decent score in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

The next area we looked at was nursing. This facility was given an impressive nursing rating in our assessment, with a C. Even though this is not as elite as some of its other scores, this is still an acceptable score in this category. There are a host of factors within this area. Most of the subcategories are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.