Reformed Church Home

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility earned near flawless inspections recently. We gave them an A+ in this area. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place New Jersey in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning residents more often.

Turning the page to our next category, this nursing home was given a top-shelf short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that category. Short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home received a high-end long-term care grade. Even though this wasn't nearly as impressive as a few of its other scores, this is still one of the more favorable grades a facility can receive. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 94.57365 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. 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 only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.