The Meadows at Osborn Park

One of the reasons this place is a quality nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection rating. Inspections is its best category grade. In this area, we awarded it a grade of A+. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this nursing home's quality category grades came in the area of long-term care. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a score of B+. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.4302 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. The nursing rating considers several subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided 0.4 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we rated was short-term care. For that category, we gave this facility a grade of C. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.