| Potential advantage scores |
| Most advantages |
Five or more quality indicators suggest potentially superior performance. |
| More advantages |
Three or four quality indicators suggest potentially superior performance. |
| Some advantages |
Two quality indicators suggest potentially superior performance. |
| Fewer advantages |
One quality indicator suggests potentially superior performance. |
| Fewest advantages |
No quality indicator suggests potentially superior performance. |
| Potential disadvantage scores |
| Fewest disadvantages |
No more than one quality indicator suggests potential performance problems. |
| Few disadvantages |
Two or three quality indicators suggest potential performance problems. |
| Some disadvantages |
Four or five quality indicators suggest potential performance problems. |
| More disadvantages |
Six or seven quality indicators suggest potential performance problems. |
| Most disadvantages |
Eight or more quality indicators suggest potential performance problems. |
| Investigation and survey scores |
| In total compliance |
No deficiencies were cited. |
| In substantial compliance |
No cited deficiency resulted in actual resident harm or immediate jeopardy or had more than potential for minimal resident harm. |
| Not in substantial compliance |
A cited deficiency had the potential for more than minimal harm but did not cause residents either actual harm or immediate jeopardy and did not constitute substandard quality of care. |
| Not in substantial compliance and at least one deficiency causing harm or jeopardy |
A cited deficiency either caused actual harm or constituted immediate jeopardy. |
| Substandard quality |
A cited deficiency in regulations governing quality of care, quality of life, or resident behavior or facility practices with widespread occurrence with more than potential for minimal harm, potential of actual harm, or immediate jeopardy of at least one resident. |
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