Cooper's Trace Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Although we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a somewhat respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a C in this area. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

In our next category, we gave this facility an F in the category of long-term care. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated only 75.675674 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

This nursing home received an F for its inspection grade. With facilities that received this poor of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was assessed 10 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This typically signifies that a nursing home's bad track record has been an issue for multiple years.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home really did not fare well in this category either. Due to a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. Short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Given its abysmal rating in this category, we were not surprised to learn this facility offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.