Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Very few nursing homes performed as well in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. It does not look like we have deficiency data for this facility. Without having access to information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it ended up being difficult to fully assess it in the area of inspections.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility 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 state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving patients even once per day.

This nursing home is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care typically 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 nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 81.74603 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we expected but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last category we graded was short-term care. In this area, we gave this facility a favorable grade of B. Short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.