Anchor Care and Rehabilitation Center

One of the reasons this proved to be a decent facility is it earned a very favorable inspection score. In this area, we gave this facility a B+. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility also was given an impressive short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B in this category, which is one of our better. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is typically a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

We also awarded this facility a strong grade in long-term care. This facility received a B in this category, which is one of our higher grades. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.70414 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a life or death ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the final area, this facility was awarded a C for nursing, which is generally an acceptable grade. We assessed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in determining our grade in this area. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place.