Tradewater Pointe

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this facility also performed well in our long-term care category, where it earned an A. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 62.732918 percent of its patients against pneumonia. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we have deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received an impressive short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this area. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Turning to the last area, this nursing home received a very strong nursing grade. While this is not nearly as impressive as a few of its other category grades, this is nevertheless one of the more impressive scores a facility can receive. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided with better nursing care.