Radford Green

One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned an A+ in short-term care. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is frequently a meaningful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The last category we scored is long-term care. We gave this nursing home a solid score in that area, with a B-. Although this is not as favorable as many of its other scores, it is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. In the category of long-term care, we look at the quantity of services provided by a facility, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 85.52631 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points lower than what we were hoping for. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.