Sanfield Rehab & Living Center

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the number of hours nurses are with residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also wanted to alert you to the fact that this nursing home excelled in our long-term care category. We gave them an exemplary score of A+ in this area. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96.296295 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we looked at, this facility was awarded a very strong grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this score, the nursing home topped off a straight A profile. In crafting these short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.