Algart Health Care

We want to point out that this nursing home earned a much better grade for long-term care than it did overall. we gave it one of our best grades in that area with an A. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 92.85714 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat lower than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Inspections is another area where this facility excelled. We gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than its overall score. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this nursing home received just a D in this area. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing. This means a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we learned that this facility offers less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. 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 nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home's least impressive area was nursing, which is the final category we analyzed. We gave it an F for this area. In spite of some acceptable grades in other categories, this score is still disappointing so we would like to to make sure you are aware. The nursing rating includes several components, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.