Vibra Rehabilitation Center

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. In determining our short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home has received near flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Our nursing grade analyzes several factors, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a patient more frequently.

The last category we analyzed was long-term care. We gave this nursing home a solid score in that area, with a B-. While this is not as dominant as some of its other grades, it is still not a terrible score. In our long-term care score, we look at the quantity of care provided by a nursing home, as well as a few quality measures. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We weren't able to find this facility's vaccination rates. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.