Sublette Center

In addition to performing well overall, this facility earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A. Inspection ratings are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't 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.

We also want to point out the fact that this facility was given a dominant grade of A in our short-term care category. Our short-term care scores are vital for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility 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 measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home was given a strong long-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 97.916664 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Switching gears to our final category, this facility also performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ for that area. This finalized a very strong report card. Our nursing category consists of several factors, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.