Tahoe Forest Hospital D/P Snf

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. We looked at the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in determining our score in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility has also received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on our next category, this nursing home was given an excellent long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in this area. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In our final category, this nursing home also was given an impressive short-term care score, with a grade of A. This rounded out a rare straight A report card. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.