Renaissance Pavilion

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care grade. Our short-term care ratings are important for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we gave this facility an B+. The nursing category weighs many factors, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a resident more often.

Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable long-term care grades this year. In fact, we awarded it one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of B+. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were not able to track down this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to the last category of inspections, this was not one of this nursing home's better grades. Inspection grades are based on a facility's recent government inspection reports. We gave this nursing home a C in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. This place had 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in categories G through L. This indicates that this facility dodged the more serious categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.