Tahoe Forest Hospital D/P Snf

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Nursing grades are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place 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 received near flawless inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

We also wanted to note the fact that this nursing home was given an elite score of A- in our short-term care category. Our short-term care grades are probably more meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The final area we looked at is long-term care. We gave this nursing home a decent grade in that category, with a grade of C. Even though this is not as dominant as several of this facility's other scores, it is nevertheless not a bad grade. In the area of long-term care, we weigh the amount of care offered by a facility, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.647064 percent of its patients. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.