Sage Creek Post-Acute

Sage Creek Post-Acute is in Las Vegas, Nevada, which has an abundance of nursing homes. Sporting an overall grade of A, this is undoubtedly a superb nursing home. We really couldn't find many bad things to say about this facility. Its scores are as good as they get. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's remarkable profile is its short-term care grade. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

On top of earning a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in our short-term care category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. This facility is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. In fact, it supplied approximately one and a half times as many registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in this area with 73.8 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing score is based on many subcategories, but the most important one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility boasts a really impressive 6.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any nursing home in the nation in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these datapoints as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered.

This nursing home has received near flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

The final area we looked at was long-term care, in which this facility received a grade of C. While this wound up being its poorest category score, this is still not a bad grade. Long-term care grades are typically used to grade a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.