The Grand Royale

One of the many reasons this ended up being a great nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its impressive performance in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for our long-term care rating. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Overall this looks like a good option for long-term care.

This nursing home also performed well in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing. This includes a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It does not appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In our last area, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for our nursing grade. This completed a very favorable report card. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages 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 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.