Radford Green

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. The nursing score analyzes several factors, however, the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place 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.

Compounding its dominant assessments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its short-term care grade. With our short-term care grade, we seek to create a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Another impressive feature of this nursing home is its inspection grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Switching gears to the final category, this facility was awarded a respectable long-term care grade. Even though this isn't quite as strong as some of its other grades, this is truly not a poor grade. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we analyze the assistance with daily living offered to the facility's patients. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to only 83.030304 percent of its patients. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.