Spjst Rest Home No 2

One of the reasons this ended up being a strong facility is that it earned a very impressive inspection grade. Inspections is its best category grade. In that category, we awarded it an A. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Adding to its impressive resume, this place also excelled in the category of nursing. In fact, we awarded it an B+ for that category. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving residents at least once a day.

The third best category we gave this nursing home in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

The last area we graded was long-term care. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. In our long-term care grade, we weigh the sheer quantity of services offered by a nursing home, as well as some qualitative metrics. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 93.84615 percent of its residents. This is a few points below what we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.