Rocky Ridge Manor

In addition to receiving a quality overall score, this facility also earned excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best scores in that area, with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor dings are not the end of the world.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. The nursing grade includes several subcategories. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we graded is long-term care. This facility was awarded a very positive long-term care score, with a B+ in this category. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. 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 only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we scored is this facility's poorest category. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it an acceptable grade of B- in short-term care. Our short-term care scores are presumably most important for people requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.