Seven Hills Pediatric Center

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of long-term care. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This grade is based on the place's government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Our inspection grades are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Places that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. The nursing score includes several components, but the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to our next area, this facility received a respectable short-term care score. Even though this was not nearly as dominant as many of its other category grades, this is truly nothing to be ashamed of. Our short-term care grades are probably more meaningful for people requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.