Schwab Rehabilitation Center Snu

In addition to being a strong facility overall, it also received A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections were virtually perfect. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. 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 given a strong short-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A in this area. In calculating our short-term care scores, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is often a solid assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Turning our next area, this facility was awarded an excellent long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- in that area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. It does not look like this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home received an excellent nursing score. In fact, we awarded it a B+ in this area, finishing off one of our more impressive report cards. Our nursing grade weighs several subcategories, most of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.