Temple City Healthcare

We also found that this facility excelled in long-term care. We gave them an A+ in this area. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. 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 higher scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem 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.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. The nursing score weighs a handful of components, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0.4 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 in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the final category we graded, this nursing home was given an impressive grade grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home rounded out a very favorable profile. Short-term care grades are often used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. It doesn't look like this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.