Tsali Care Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received a far better grade for short-term care than its overall score. It received one of our highest scores in that category with a score of A-. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is frequently a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we gave this facility an B. Our nursing grade is based on the facility'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 particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We would also like to draw your attention to this nursing home's strong inspection score. This nursing home earned a grade of B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Inspection ratings are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, this facility received a category L deficiency, which was unexpected based on its inspection rating. These are the most concerning deficiencies. This category of deficiency indicates the government inspectors uncovered a widespread deficiency placing resident safety or health in immediate jeopardy. Even a single serious deficiency of this nature should be taken seriously. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.

The next category we graded is long-term care. This nursing home was given a grade of B- in the category. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at 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 vaccinated 93.44262 percent of its residents. This is somewhat below what we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Nevertheless, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.