Renaissance Terrace

To pair with its strong overall grade, we gave this place an A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we gave this facility an A. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's third best category is its long-term care score, where it received a grade of B-. For patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 96.478874 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we assessed is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in our short-term care category, making this the facility's worst grade. Our short-term care grade is typically used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. It appears that this place was below average in multiple staffing areas we looked at. It offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.