View Ridge Care Center

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place 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 frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a patient more frequently.

Additionally, this nursing home also received favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we gave it one of our stronger scores in that area, with a grade of B+. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is generally a fair measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, this nursing home was assessed a category L deficiency, which was not what we expected given its inspection grade. This category of deficiency means inspectors discovered a widespread deficiency putting patient safety or health in immediate danger. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.

The last area we scored is long-term care. We awarded this facility an acceptable score in that category, with a B-. Even though this wasn't as dominant as many of this facility's other grades, it is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. In computing our long-term care ratings, we analyze the assistance with daily living offered to a facility's patients. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.