Quail Ridge Living Center

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection scores are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

In addition, we also wanted to note that this facility was given strong long-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more impressive scores in this category, with a grade of B. This proved to be the nursing home's second highest grade. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

As it turns out, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its short-term care score, which is not an impressive grade. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Moving on to our last category, this nursing home did not fare well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is its worst category. In calculating a facility's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses are with patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averaged only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This nursing home was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this area.