Roselawn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

We also awarded this nursing home a solid score in the category of long-term care, with a B-. Our long-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 96 percent of its patients, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing score. In fact, we gave this facility an D. Nursing grades are primarily tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we assessed was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is obviously a major disappointment. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. As you might expect, we found that this nursing home provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.