Allied Services Skilled Nursing Center

This facility received a very favorable short-term care score. In fact, its short-term care grade proved to be its best category. In that area, we gave this them a B. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility's inspection grade exceeded its overall score as well. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our nursing rating is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this metric. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning a patient more frequently.

The next area we looked at was long-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's worst area. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is certainly very concerning. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 93.81689 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly lower than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.