Advanced Care Center of Butler

In addition to being an elite nursing home overall, this facility performed well in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Very few nursing homes performed this well in this category. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. It doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This first-rate facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade is mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Only a select group of nursing homes fared better in this area. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We weren't able to track down this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The fourth area we assessed is short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded an A. This completed a very impressive report card. Very few nursing homes received an A- or better in every single category. Our short-term care grades are arguably more important for folks needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.