Embassy of Swanton

We awarded this nursing home one of our better scores in short-term care, where it received an A-. This is far better than the facility's overall grade, which was certainly not elite. Our short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

An additional reason we rated this facility so highly is that it earned an A+ nursing score. This is as good as it gets in this area. There are a variety of datapoints included in this category. Most of the criteria are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a resident even once per day.

The next category we scored was long-term care. We gave this facility a D for the area of long-term care, leaving this as the facility's least impressive area. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.78788 percent of its residents, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.