Seasons Healthcare

This nursing home received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially want to note its excellent short-term care score. We awarded them an A- in this category. In forming these short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. It received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that area with an A-. Few facilities with an overall score in this range performed as well in multiple categories. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was awarded a favorable long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that area with a score of B+. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 94.44444 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to our fourth area, this facility was given an extremely favorable nursing rating. This facility didn't prove to have any real weaknesses. There are many data points included in this grade. Many of these factors relate to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.