Skytop View Rehabilitation Center

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. Short-term care grades are important for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its high-end resume, this facility also received a dominant long-term care score, with a grade of A. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the last category we graded, this nursing home received a very favorable grade of A in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home topped off a straight A profile. The nursing grade is based on a variety of data points. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.