The Rohr Home

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility also earned an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This high end nursing home also fared very well in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Very few facilities performed better in this category. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.37 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our nursing rating is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. With 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this nursing home surpassed the national average. Finally, this facility also excelled in several quality-based metrics we assessed. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by providing better nursing care and a policy of turning residents more often.

The last category we looked at is short-term care. In this category, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is typically a useful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It was respectable in this area with 45.5 percent of its patients returning home.