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We also found that this nursing home excelled at short-term care. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Short-term care scores are meaningful for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received a virtually flawless inspection. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. This was one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+ category grades. Our inspection grades are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating features a host of factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at 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.

Moving on to the fourth area, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care category. We awarded it a grade of A for this category. This rounded out a straight A report card. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were not able to locate this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.