Timothy Daniels House

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.5 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 prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a patient even once per day.

We also awarded this facility a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 81.18812 percent of its residents. This is somewhat less than we expected. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Inspection scores account for several 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 higher grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we rated, this facility was awarded a very strong grade of A in our short-term care category. With this score, the nursing home finished off a straight A profile. Our short-term care scores are presumably most important for those needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.