Apostolic Christian Home

In addition to earning a great overall score, this facility also received an elite nursing rating. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an A-. There are many criteria within this category. Most of the datapoints are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. You really can not do much better than a deficiency-free inspection report.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our higher grades in our long-term care category as well, with a B. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. After considering the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 94.871796 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't take any chances. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next area we graded was short-term care. We awarded it a C in that area. This is a fair grade in this area. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 3.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.