The Elms Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is as good as it gets in this category. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints found on 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 should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many high-end grades, this nursing home was given first-rate long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 96.79144 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the number of hours nurses spend with patients and the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we assessed proved to be this nursing home's poorest area. Nevertheless, even its lowest point would likely be a highlight for most facilities. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in our short-term care category. Our short-term care grades are vital for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.