Anthony Community Care Center

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of long-term care, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 82.97872 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is slightly lower than we expected but still a respectable figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility has earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this area. Our inspection grades are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's inspections. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 27 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Our nursing category consists of quite a few subcategories, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to our final area, this nursing home received a highly favorable short-term care rating. We awarded it a grade of A- in that area, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. Our short-term care grades are important for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.