The Concierge

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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.

Another quality feature for this nursing home is that it received an above average long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category score. In that category, we gave this facility a B+. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 86.56716 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. When calculating a facility's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses commit to patients and the level of skill of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures 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.

The last category we graded was this facility's worst area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a decent grade of C for short-term care. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 4.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.