Abbotts Creek Center

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of this facility's more favorable category scores was in the area of short-term care. This ended up being its second most respectable category. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses worked with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is an alarmingly low total. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we rated is long-term care, which is this facility's worst category. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is certainly very disappointing. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category likely don't provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities provide. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 86.47059 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points less than what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.