Scott Health & Rehabilitation

On top of being an elite facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, where it received a grade of A+. Few facilities performed as well in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was given a fine long-term care score. In fact, this is its second best category score. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but there's nothing wrong with a score in this range either. We weighed the licensure of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final area we graded was short-term care. This facility was awarded a better than average short-term care grade in our assessment, with a B-. Even though this wasn't nearly as dominant as several of its other scores, this remains an acceptable grade in that category. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more important for residents needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. It does not appear that this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.