Roselawn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation

Although we gave this nursing home a horrible overall score, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility also didn't fare poorly in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a C in that category, which is another one of its higher grades. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's assistance with daily living instead of the skilled nursing and healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.319725 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to the category of short-term care, this facility was awarded just a D in this category. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is considered to be a useful measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Not surprisingly, we found that this place provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical nursing home. Lastly, we looked at 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.

The final category we graded is nursing. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area, which is a rock bottom score. In determining our nursing ratings, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home averaged just 2.5 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is far below the national average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.