DeMay Living Center

To pair with its favorable overall grade, we gave this place an A for the area of inspections. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so well is that it was given a strong long-term care grade. Indeed, long-term care turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a score of A-. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 93.965515 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. There are a number of criteria within this grade. Many of the criteria reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we looked at is short-term care, turned out to be this facility's weakest category. We awarded this facility a D in this area. This is one of the couple of dings of a very solid profile. In our short-term care score, we try to create a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. It appears that this facility was below average in many staffing metrics we looked at. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.