Tunnell Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

We also would like to emphasize the fact that this facility received an A for nursing. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home 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 also would like to emphasize the fact that this facility was awarded a top-shelf grade of A in our short-term care area. In forming our short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Racking up yet another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

In the last category we assessed, this facility was awarded a very strong grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home wrapped up an elite report card. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.