Rosewood Center

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. This grade is far better than its overall rating. Inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This nursing home also was given a favorable long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it a B+ in this area, which happens to be one of our better. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 75.96567 percent of its patients, which is a few points below what we were hoping for. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's next most favorable category turned out to be its short-term care score, where it was given a grade of C. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is considered to be a solid assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

The final category we rated is nursing, which ended up being this facility's weakest area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this category. We analyzed the levels of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in calculating our grade in this area. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.