The Center at Grande

On top of performing well overall, this nursing home received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our best scores in that area with an A+. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

Compounding its elite accomplishments in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for its short-term care score. In computing our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is typically a solid measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents even once per day.

The last category we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B+. This wrapped up a very favorable report card. Not many nursing homes received a B+ or higher in in each area we assessed. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.