Totally Kids Rehabilitation Hospital - D/P Snf

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home also received nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with a grade of A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Nursing ratings are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This particular nursing home provided 1.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving patients more frequently.

Building on its strong assessment, this facility also received a superb long-term care score, with a score of A-. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 90.243904 percent of its residents, which is a few points below what we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final area we graded was short-term care, where this facility was given a B-. This ended up being this nursing home's weakest area. This is nevertheless not a major area of concern. Short-term care ratings are vital for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.