Ranch Terrace Nursing Home

We would like to point out that this facility's short-term care score exceeded its overall score. This facility earned a B+ in this area, which is a very solid score. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility actually earned a solid government inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that category with a B-. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. There are several factors within this grade. Most of these factors are tied to staffing levels. This place provides only 0 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

Turning to our fourth area, this facility received a C in long-term care, which we consider to be a respectable rating. Long-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's volume of nursing services. This includes a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 91.176476 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.