Royal Terrace Healthcare

This nursing home's nursing rating is notably more impressive than its overall score. Due to a strong performance in this category, it earned a quality score in that category with a grade of B+. The nursing rating assesses a handful of factors, however, the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning residents more often.

We also gave this facility an impressive grade in short-term care. This nursing home earned a B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our more impressive grades. Short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility's third highest category was its long-term care grade, where it was given a grade of C. With our long-term care score, we weigh the volume of services offered by a facility, along with a handful of qualitative metrics. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning the last category of inspections, this ended up being this facility's weakest link. Inspection ratings are based on a facility's recent government inspection reports. We gave this nursing home just a D in this category, which is a very poor grade. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. Generally, you should be more cautious when considering a facility with severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies identified by the government inspectors had potential to pose actual harm to residents. Finally, this facility also received 6 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.