Transitional Care Unit

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home earned nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this nursing home was given quality marks in the category of short-term care. Consequently, it received one of our most impressive scores in that category with a score of A+. Short-term care ratings are critical for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home also was given a first-rate long-term care grade. Indeed, this is its third best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the next area, this facility also performed admirably in our nursing category. We gave it an A in this category. This finalized truly elite profile. Our nursing grade assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.