The Suites at Holly Creek Care Center

In addition to being a first-rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received an elite grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most meaningful for individuals needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility has earned near flawless health inspections recently. We gave them an A- in this category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on our next category, this facility was awarded first-rate long-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A- in this category. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 94.91525 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we graded was nursing, where this facility was given a grade of A-. This wrapped up an elite report card. Few facilities received an A- or better in every single category. Our nursing rating assesses quite a few factors, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.