Addison Healthcare Center

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our best scores. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. Our nursing score is mostly associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

Sadly, this facility's third best category was long-term care. However, with a D in this area, it still performed somewhat badly. Nursing homes that do not score well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. We were a bit concerned this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 60.144928 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

The last area we rated was short-term care, where this nursing home received a rock bottom score in this area as well. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is often a meaningful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Considering its weak rating in this area, we weren't shocked to learn that this nursing home provided substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.