Sumner Place

We also wanted to emphasize that this facility earned near flawless inspections recently. We gave them an A+ in this category. Our inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Sadly, this nursing home received a category L deficiency, which was not what we expected given its inspection score. This category of deficiency indicates CMS uncovered a widespread deficiency placing patient health or safety in imminent jeopardy. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.

This facility also received an A+ long-term care grade, making it one of the few facilities to be awarded more than one A+ category scores. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.214485 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. When calculating a facility's nursing score, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this facility was awarded a decent short-term care score. Although this is not quite as dominant as many of its other grades, this is truly a middle of the pack score. Our short-term care grades are probably most critical for people needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 3.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.