Scheurer Hospital Long-Term Care

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. Our nursing rating includes several factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this nursing home received dominant marks in the category of long-term care. Consequently, it received one of our best grades in that area with a score of A+. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.48485 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the final area, this facility also was awarded an impressive short-term care score, with a grade of A-. This rounded out a very favorable report card. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be most meaningful for those in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they 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 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.