Sterling Suites Healthcare and Rehabilitation

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this facility also excelled at short-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that area with a score of A. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. There are quite a few factors included in this category. Many of the datapoints relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we looked at was long-term care, in which this facility received a C. This proved to be this facility's weakest category. This is nevertheless not a major area of concern. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted information about vaccinations. Lastly, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.