The Rosewood Health Center

In addition to receiving an elite overall rating, this facility earned an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing score assesses many components, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient even once per day.

This facility also was elite in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of A. Only a select group of facilities fared better in this area. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.4012 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility also performed admirably in the short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for this category. This topped off a very strong profile. Our short-term care scores are probably most important for individuals requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.