Sage Rehabilitation Hospital Snf

To go along with its strong overall grade, we gave this facility a grade of A for our short-term care grade. Our short-term care grades are important for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing grade. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are with residents as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also found that this facility has earned favorable government inspections in recent years. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is better than many nursing homes in this category. We believe that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Moving on to the next category, this nursing home was awarded a respectable long-term care score of C. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information about vaccinations. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.