The Actors Fund Home

On top of its strong overall score, we awarded this facility an A for our long-term care rating. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.34025 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In addition, this facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It performed better than most nursing homes in this area. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide quality 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 highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities 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 looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last area we analyzed was nursing. We gave this facility one of our more favorable grades in this area, with a grade of B. Although this wasn't as strong as some of this nursing home's other scores, it is nevertheless a positive score. In determining a facility's nursing score, we look at the amount of time nurses spend with residents as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.