Senior Suite Care & Rehab

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A-. Our nursing rating analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home was awarded an impressive short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that category with a score of B+. In forming our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. It does not look like this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility also earned favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the 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 the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The final category we scored was long-term care. We awarded this facility one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of B. This nursing home ended up being relatively strong in each area we assessed. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 87.28814 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be a few points lower than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.