The Weils

In addition to being a first-rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled at short-term care, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our short-term care grades are critical for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an A-. Our nursing rating weighs quite a few datapoints, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to another of this facility's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection grade. Inspections proved to be one of its best category grades. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A-. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

The last category we scored is long-term care, which ended up being this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that category. Nevertheless, we would not assess this facility solely on one bad area, as it earned several high-end scores in other areas. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We weren't able to locate information on vaccination rates. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.