Tabitha Nursing Home

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing score analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving patients at least once a day.

We also gave this nursing home a score of A+ for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are likely more critical for those in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.5 percent of this facility'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. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.

In the last category we analyzed, this facility was given an impressive grade grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this grade, the facility rounded out a very strong profile. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.48812 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.