The Peaks Care and Rehab

We also found that this nursing home excelled at short-term care. We awarded them an A+ in this category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 7.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

To complement its elite achievements in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for its long-term care score. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This nursing home knocked it out of the park in this area.

In addition, this facility also earned a nearly flawless government inspection report. It earned one of our best grades in that category with an A. Inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places 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.

Switching gears to the last area, this facility received an extremely favorable nursing rating. We awarded it an A in that category, giving this facility straight A's. The nursing rating includes many data points, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a patient even once per day.