Reginald P White Nursing Facility

To go along with its strong overall grade, we gave this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 86.57407 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing grade is based on a handful of subcategories, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to our final category, this facility also performed well in our short-term care category. We gave it a grade of A- in this category. This rounded out truly elite profile. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.