Allay Health and Rehab

Although this facility's overall score was terrible, it actually performed pretty well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that area, which is one of our better scores. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid nursing homes that had a long list of deficiencies. Surprisingly, this nursing home was hit with a category L deficiency, which is unexpected given its inspection grade. This is the worst possible category of deficiencies. This category of deficiency means CMS discovered a widespread deficiency putting patient health or safety in imminent jeopardy. Any serious deficiency is a major concern. While other aspects of this nursing home's inspection report were favorable, we have some reservations.

This facility's second best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Nursing scores are largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these statistics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this nursing home received a grade of just D in this area. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most meaningful for individuals needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its poor rating in this category, we weren't stunned to learn that this nursing home offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 5.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

The final area we analyzed is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is a rock bottom score. Nursing homes that don't 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 healthcare services we looked at. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit alarmed this facility administered the vaccine to only 83.870964 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.