Redeemer Residence

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. We weighed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with residents, in computing our rating in this area. 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 place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Among its many impressive grades, this nursing home was given an excellent short-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A in this area. Short-term care scores are crucial for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In addition, this facility also received excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in that category, with an A-. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The fourth category we assessed is long-term care, where this nursing home received a B+. This finished off an elite profile. Few facilities received a B+ or better in each of our categories. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.46667 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.