Randolph Health Services

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many impressive scores, this nursing home was given an excellent short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in this area. In forming these short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.5 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 was given a first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, this is this facility's third best category score. In that category, this facility received a score of A. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.40829 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the final category, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for our nursing grade. This completed a very strong profile. Our nursing score is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as good measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.