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We also wanted to emphasize that this nursing home earned near flawless inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its profile, this facility also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.73333 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The third area we looked at was short-term care. This facility received an impressive short-term care score, with a grade of B in this category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services To offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The last category we graded is nursing, in which this nursing home received a B. This facility did not turn out to have any weak grades. We analyzed the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in determining our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.