Salem Home

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an A-. Few facilities fared better in this category. There are numerous subcategories within this grade. Many of these datapoints reflect levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its impressive profile, this nursing home also performed at a high level in the area of inspections. In fact, it earned a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that area with an A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This nursing home also was given a strong long-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B in this area. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 92.258064 percent of its patients. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to our fourth area, this facility was given a very strong short-term care rating. This facility didn't prove to have any weak grades. Short-term care grades are generally employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.