Argentine Care Center

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We looked at the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

An additional strong feature for this nursing home is that it received an above average short-term care score. In fact, this ended up being its second best category score. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a B+. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be more critical for people in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home earned its third best grade in the area of inspections. Inspection ratings are based on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. We awarded this nursing home a C in this area. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This facility had 8 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This indicates that inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to present an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

The next area we looked at is long-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this area. Long-term care grades focus on a nursing home's personal care instead of the highly skilled therapy and healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.4012 percent of its residents, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. This place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.