The Lodge at Cypress Cove

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with patients, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this facility was given quality marks in the category of short-term care. Consequently, it received one of our best grades in that area with a grade of A+. In computing these short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Continuing with its amazing performance, this nursing home also received an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection scores are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't 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.

The last area we rated is long-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of A-. This completed a very favorable report card. Very few facilities earned an A- or higher in every category. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid negative health outcomes for the senior population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.