The Grove

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility has received near flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. We weren't able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home really excelled in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of A. Few nursing homes performed more favorably in this category. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.35973 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. Nursing grades are primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, nursing scores also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

Turning to the last area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D for the area of short-term care. This is the nursing home's weakest category grade. However, we wouldn't focus exclusively a single bad score. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is more often than not a useful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.