Anchor Lodge Nursing Home

While we were not high on this nursing home's overall performance, it actually received an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that area with a grade of B+. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility's second least favorable score is long-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a relatively poor grade. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinates 93.965515 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

The next category we rated is short-term care. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is a very poor grade. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. With a score in this range in this category, we weren't shocked to find that this nursing home was below average in two of the key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.