The Pearl at Kruse Way

We also found that this nursing home excelled at short-term care. We gave them an elite grade of A+ in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is often a meaningful assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. In computing our nursing grades, we weigh both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.6 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 nursing home also received a nearly flawless inspection report. It received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The final category we scored was long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a solid grade of C. This ended up being this nursing home's weakest category. In determining our long-term care scores, we analyze the assistance with daily living offered to the nursing home's patients. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Finally, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.