The Living Center

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. We weighed the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also received an A+ long-term care grade, rendering it one of the few facilities to be awarded several A+ category grades. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.666664 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility also earned excellent inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in that category, with an impressive grade of A-. Inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The last area we rated was short-term care. We gave this facility one of our higher grades in this category, with a grade of B. While this wasn't as high as several of its other grades, it is nevertheless a perfectly acceptable grade. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.