The Center for Restorative Therapies at Mercy

To pair with a favorable overall grade, we gave this place an A+ for our inspection category. Our inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This top notch nursing home also was superb in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A+. Very few facilities performed better in this category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is typically a solid assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This first-rate facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing score assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The fourth category we scored was long-term care, where this nursing home was given an A. This completed a very favorable report card. Very few nursing homes received an A- or higher in every single category. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. It doesn't appear that this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.