Signature Healthcare at Tanbark Rehab & Wellness C

We also want to emphasize that this facility earned an impressive grade of A for short-term care. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility has earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically have few severe deficiencies. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning our next area, this nursing home received first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in this category. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility was awarded an excellent nursing grade. We awarded it an A- in that category, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. Our nursing score is based on quite a few data points, however, the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 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 areas as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.