Ranch House Senior Living

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents 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.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Nursing scores are primarily tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This was one of the better totals we found. In addition, a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. In addition to providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any facility in the state when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Moving on our next area, this nursing home received an excellent short-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A- in that category. Short-term care scores are important for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This place provided more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Completing its excellent profile, this nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our higher scores. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.