Sharon Regional Medical Center Tcu

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled at short-term care, where it received an A+. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is considered to be a solid assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 7.5 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility has also received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home 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.

Turning to our final category, this facility received an acceptable long-term care grade. Even though this wasn't quite as impressive as several of its other scores, this is truly nothing to be ashamed of. Our long-term care grades are vital for residents in need of personal care. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were not able to track down information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Lastly, this facility excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.