Regeis Care Center

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. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This nursing home performed well in our short-term care category. As a result, we awarded it a grade of A- for that area, which turns out to be one of our higher scores. In determining these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning to our third area, this nursing home also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.29874 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last area we analyzed was nursing, which is this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a D in this category. Nevertheless, you shouldn't assess this nursing home solely on a single category, as it received several very strong scores in other categories. There are a variety of subcategories included in this grade. Most of the subcategories are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This number is well below the national average. While this facility did not excel in the area of nursing hours, it surprised us in a few of the quality-based metrics in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed better than average in this metric, which was one redeeming quality we found in this area.