Rawlins Rehabilitation and Wellness

One of the reasons this place is a quality nursing home is that it received a very impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In this category, we awarded this facility an A. Our inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home is also above average in the category of short-term care, where it was given a grade of B. It outpaced most nursing homes in this category. Short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 4.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also was given a favorable long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 96.34147 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a B- for nursing, which is generally a decent rating. Nursing ratings are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this area. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving residents at least once a day.