Archie Hendricks Senior Skilled Nursing Facility

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great facility is that it received a very impressive short-term care grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A. Our short-term care grade is typically used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received a impressive long-term care score. Indeed, this is this nursing home's second strongest category grade. In that area, this facility received a grade of A-. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Racking up another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned an A-. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we looked at, this nursing home received an impressive grade grade of A- in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home finished off a straight A profile. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.