The Reservoir

The Reservoir is a small nursing home in West Hartford, Connecticut. We awarded this nursing home an A- overall grade, ranking it in the top quarter of all facilities in the nation. We simply can't say enough favorable things about this place. This nursing home's impressive report card was highlighted by its short-term care score, which you can find in the next paragraph.

On top of earning a great overall score, this facility also received an A+ short-term care grade. In computing our short-term care grades, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is more often than not a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation with 69.5 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

In addition, this facility also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A. Our inspection scores are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Our nursing grade assesses many components, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home was given a favorable nursing rating this year, with a B. While this isn't quite as dominant as a few of its other category grades, this is still one of the more impressive grades for this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.4382 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the elderly population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.52 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home.