Rest Haven Nursing Home

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The last area we looked at is short-term care, where this facility was given a grade of B. Believe it or not, this proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. A facility could be doing a lot worse when it's poorest score still is better than most other nursing homes. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.