Regent Care Center of Reno

This nursing home really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. If it wasn't for this area, this facility's overall grade would have been much lower. Short-term care grades are generally used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home's next highest category is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.77301 percent of its residents. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. In computing our nursing ratings, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, while this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this metric.

Moving on the last category of inspections, this ended up being this nursing home's weakest link. Inspection ratings are based on a facility's recent government inspection reports. We gave this nursing home a score of D in this category, which is not a very good grade. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this place received significant government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This generally means that a nursing home's poor performance spanned multiple years.