Bannister Center

This nursing home's short-term care score is notably more impressive than its overall grade. It received a strong grades in that category with a B+. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is considered to be a fair assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it earned a grade of B. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the number of hours nurses are with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 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 nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Unfortunately, this facility's next best category is long-term care. However, with a D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home did not perform well in our measures relating to patient care. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated a relatively low 89.83517 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

Unfortunately, this nursing home did not receive a favorable inspection grade. We gave it just a just D in this category. Inspection grades relate to a facility's government inspection reports. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This particular nursing home had a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies identified by CMS had potential to cause actual harm to patients. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received significant government fines recently totaling more than $100,000. This typically signifies that a facility's bad track record spanned several years.