The Gardens of Taylor Glen Ret Com

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility earned near flawless government inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This high end facility also was superb in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A+. Only a small group of facilities fared better in this category. In crafting these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. There are several factors within this grade. Many of these datapoints are tied to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the last area, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for its long-term care score. This topped off a first-rate report card. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.