Scenic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent government inspection reports in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

In addition, we gave this facility a B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our more impressive grades. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.666664 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. The nursing grade assesses several subcategories, however, the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is far below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next category we scored was short-term care, which was this facility's worst category. We gave this facility a D in this area. Unfortunately, this score pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is generally a useful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. It looks like this place was below average in multiple staffing areas we focus on. The facility offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.