Surrey Place Care Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as 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.

Contributing to its elite resume, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in the area. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. This facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. While it had 1.91 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most nursing homes due to it having more complex patients.

Compounding its fine profile, this facility also received a superb short-term care score, with a score of A-. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we size up a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is frequently a solid assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in the country in this area with 55.9 percent of its residents able to return home.

Turning to the fourth category, this facility was given a strong nursing score. Even though this is not nearly as dominant as a few of its other grades, this is nevertheless one of the better grades a facility can receive. The nursing grade is based on a handful of data points, however, the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provided 4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which was above the national average. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average.