The Suites at Holly Creek Care Center

We also would like to emphasize the fact that this nursing home excelled in our nursing category. We gave them an A+ in this category. Our nursing category is based on a handful of components, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also received an A+ for its long-term care score. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 86.79245 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly lower than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also awarded this nursing home a of A+ for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Another impressive feature for this nursing home is its inspection grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home a score of A, completing its straight A performance. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. 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.