The Center at Grande

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home has received near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor dings aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Few facilities fared better in this area. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is more often than not a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Our nursing grade is mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this facility was awarded an excellent long-term care rating. While this was not nearly as impressive as a few of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of our better grades we offer. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.