The Grand Royale

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in our long-term care category, where it received an A. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also was superb in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of A. Only a select group of nursing homes fared better in this category. Our short-term care scores are crucial for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A. Inspection scores are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on to our next category, this facility also performed well in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A- in this area. This wrapped up a straight A report card. Our nursing score is largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.