Red Bud Regional Care

To pair with its great overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A for inspections. Our inspection scores are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our nursing rating weighs a variety of factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to its strong profile, this facility also was given a dominant short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last category we rated was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B+. This finished off an elite profile. Not many nursing homes earned a B+ or better in in each area we assessed. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 94.55446 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.