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We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an A+ in this area. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home an A for inspections. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without having access to all of the deficiency data, it was challenging to grade the place in the inspections category.

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 grade assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we graded is long-term care. This nursing home was given a very good nursing score this year, with a grade of B. Although this is not quite as strong as a few of its other grades, this is nevertheless one of our more impressive scores in this area. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.