Taylor Health Care Center

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. One of the criteria we considered after this nursing home's impressive nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for seniors. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.9 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this place is close to average in this area.

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded a strong short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services To provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This place excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average facility. This is certainly an excellent sign. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

In the final category, this facility also was awarded a first-rate nursing rating, with a B+. This completed a very favorable report card. The nursing grade includes quite a few subcategories, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was one of the highest figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. In addition to providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home was also above average in several of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are generally good indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility offers.