The Rosewood Retirement Community

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. Its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A-. Inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an B. Our nursing score is mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also awarded this facility a decent grade in the category of short-term care, with a grade of B-. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The real question is whether this also affected quality of care. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

This facility's weakest category was long-term care, which is the final category we analyzed. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category. Even with several solid scores in other categories, this score is nevertheless alarming so we would like to to draw your attention to it. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated just 25.454544 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.