White Memorial Medical Center Dp

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ short-term care grade. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Compounding its dominant assessments in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for our long-term care rating. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. This facility is off the charts in this area.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the final category, this nursing home was given an excellent nursing rating. We gave it a grade of A in that area, giving this facility straight A's. There are several factors included in this grade. Most of the factors reflect nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.