Algart Health Care

On top of performing well in its overall score, this facility received even higher grades in long-term care. In fact, it earned one of our best scores in that category with an impressive grade of A+. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.175186 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to another one of this facility's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections turned out to be one of its best category grades. We awarded this nursing home an A+. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The third area we graded is short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave this nursing home a relatively low score in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of D. In computing these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. It looks like this nursing home was below average in two of the key staffing metrics we focus on. It offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

The final area we rated was nursing. We gave this facility a D in our nursing category, rendering this the facility's weakest area. Our nursing score includes several factors, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Although this nursing home's nursing hours were below average, it surprised us in a few of the qualitative metrics in this category. In particular, we were pleased to see that its residents appear to be experiencing fewer pressure ulcers than most nursing homes.