Strasburg Nursing Home

To go along with its favorable overall score, we gave this place an A+ for inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not deem 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.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Nursing grades are mostly based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. With 4.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Finally, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it fared as well as any nursing home the country when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered.

Moving on our next area, this first-rate nursing home also performed remarkably in the category of long-term care. In this area, we awarded it a A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination records is superb also. Indeed, it vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This combination proved to be effective as this facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.77 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the last category, this nursing home also was given an excellent short-term care grade, with a B+. This finished off a very strong profile. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.