Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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.

Among this facility's litany of rock-bottom scores was its F in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With a score in this range for this category, we were not shocked to learn that this facility was below average in several staffing metrics we looked at. It provided substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

Our next category we assessed was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given an F. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility provided the vaccine to a relatively low 67.51055 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

The next category we looked at is nursing, where this facility was given an abysmal grade here also. Sadly, it received an F for this category, which is obviously a major concern. We weighed the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these data points to be measures of the quality of nursing care.