Terrace View Care Center

In addition to earning a great overall rating, this facility excelled in inspections, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded it an A in that area. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Among its many impressive scores, this facility was given a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A in that category. In our short-term care category, we strive to craft a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing grades are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility 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.

Moving on to the fourth category, this nursing home was awarded an excellent long-term care score. While this wasn't nearly as dominant as some of its other scores, this is still one of the stronger scores a facility can receive. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.