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In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also earned an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many dominant scores, this nursing home was awarded an excellent long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep 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 number.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. There are several subcategories included in this area. Most of these datapoints are tied to nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning a resident even once per day.

The last area we analyzed is short-term care. This facility received an above average short-term care grade in our assessment, with a grade of B-. While this wasn't as impressive as several of its other grades, this remains a decent grade for this category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.