University Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this facility also performed well in inspections, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for that category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing score is based on a host of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning our third category, this nursing home was given first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to minimize negative health outcomes for the nursing home population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final category we scored was short-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a B. While this turned out to be its least impressive category grade, this is nevertheless an impressive rating. Short-term care grades are meaningful for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.