University Heights Rehab & Care

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we gave it a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This score is more respectable than this place's overall grade. Inspection scores are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This particular nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. Nursing scores are mostly tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. While this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did very well in this metric. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning residents more frequently.

This facility's third highest area is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The real question is whether this also impacted quality of care. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

The last area we assessed is long-term care, which turned out to be a weak spot for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a grade of D in long-term care. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities provide. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 86.56716 percent of its patients. This is quite a bit below what we expected. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.