Skyline Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that area with an A. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Additionally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was awarded positive long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our more impressive grades in this category, with a grade of B. This turned out to be the facility's second strongest score. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 93.56913 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next most favorable category we gave this nursing home in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Turning to our next category, we awarded this facility a grade of D for the area of nursing. This was the facility's least impressive category score. Unfortunately, this category hurt the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. The nursing score weighs a number of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these scores pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.