Stafford Healthcare at Ridgemont

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our short-term care category. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing score is mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The third area we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home was awarded an above average long-term care score, with a grade of B+ in the area. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.55357 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Completing its excellent profile, this nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. We gave it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection ratings are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.