Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it an A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Inspection scores are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This particular nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Sadly, this facility's second most favorable score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed relatively badly. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is often a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. With its grade in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 5.2 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.

This nursing home ended up receiving a bottom of the barrel grade in our long-term care category. It was given a lowly F in this area. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 55.737705 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit lower than the national average. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

The final category we graded is nursing. Sadly, it received an F for this category, which is a very poor score. Nursing grades are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is well below average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.