Sagebrook Nursing and Rehabilitation

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection ratings are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

In addition, we also would like to note that this nursing home was awarded favorable long-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our better grades in that category, with a B+. This proved to be the facility's second highest grade. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.62963 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Additionally, we gave this nursing home an F in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With its score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this place was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

The final category we looked at was nursing. It received an F in this area, which is a rock bottom grade. This is certainly a major concern. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this facility was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents suffering pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric.