Ambassador Healthcare

Ambassador Healthcare is located in Centerville, Indiana. This nursing home proved to be a solid facility, with an overall grade of C. Based on our analysis, there are certainly far worse places out there. This facility didn't fare well in every category we looked at, but it didn't receive any terrible grades either. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this place had some 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 tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an B. When determining a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are with patients and the level of skill of the nurses. With 4 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this facility was above the national average. Lastly, this nursing home also fared even better in most of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, it had a low number of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's third highest score was long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed somewhat poorly. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 98.701294 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

This nursing home's weakest category was short-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. For this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Based on its weak score in this category, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 36.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.