The Gardens of Taylor Glen Ret Com

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection scores weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing score is primarily tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility boasts a really impressive 10.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. It performed as well as any nursing home in the nation in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Moving on our next area, this first-rate nursing home also fared very well in the category of short-term care. In this category, we gave it a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is typically a meaningful measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. This place excelled at the highest level in two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility provided about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is definitely an excellent sign. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in North Carolina in this area with 66.5 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

In the last category we graded, this facility was given a very favorable grade of A in our long-term care category. With this grade, the facility finished off a straight A profile. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We weren't able to track down information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.