The Osborn

To go along with a favorable overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspection category. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This first-rate nursing home also performed well in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of A+. Only a small group of nursing homes fared better in this category. With our short-term care rating, we try to craft a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. When computing a facility's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses commit to patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to our next area, this facility also excelled in the long-term care category. We awarded it a grade of B+ in this category. This rounded out a first-rate report card. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 98.57143 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.