Sapphire Estates Rehab Centre

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. We were not able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its elite accomplishments in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A- for its long-term care score. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On the whole this looks like a good option for long-term care.

Turning to the next category, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our short-term care grades are considered to be more important for individuals requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Switching gears to our next area, this facility was awarded a highly favorable nursing grade. Even though this was not as impressive as many of its other scores, this remains one of our better scores a facility can receive. Nursing grades are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.