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We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. 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 short-term care grade. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 8.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility also was superb in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Not many facilities received a better grade in this area. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the final category we looked at, this facility was given a very strong grade of A- in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home wrapped up a straight A report card. The nursing rating considers a variety of data points. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.