Reynolds Memorial Hospital

On top of receiving an elite overall score, this facility received an A+ inspection score. This is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category typically have few severe deficiencies. It does not look like we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This top notch nursing home also dominated in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A+. Only a small group of nursing homes performed better in this category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 7.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. There are a host of criteria within this category. Many of the criteria reflect nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to the last area, this nursing home also excelled in the long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for this category. This finalized a straight A report card. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.