The Lodge

One of the many reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider 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.

This facility also was given a dominant long-term care grade. This actually ended up being this nursing home's second most impressive category score. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A-. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.19231 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a score of B+. Short-term care grades are crucial for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Moving on to our final category, this facility received a highly favorable nursing rating. We awarded it a B+ in that area, finishing off one of our finer report cards. The nursing score weighs quite a few subcategories, however, the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.