Shadelands Post Acute

On top of being a great facility overall, it also received A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections were nearly flawless. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. It doesn't appear that we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its high-end accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for its long-term care score. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This facility clearly performed favorably enough in these measures to earn an impressive grade in this category.

Building on its high-end assessment, this facility also was awarded an excellent short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. With our short-term care grade, we endeavor to craft a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. It does not look like this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In our final category, this facility also was awarded an impressive nursing grade, with a B+. This rounded out a very strong profile. In calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.