Cooper's Trace Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Even though we gave this nursing home a weak overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B for our nursing rating. Our nursing rating weighs quite a few subcategories, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning patients at least once a day.

This facility also didn't fare too badly in the area of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a C for that area, which ended up being among its better grades. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, it only received a grade of D for its inspection grade. Inspection scores factor in many items on the facility's recent inspection reports. If you see severe deficiencies on the reports, this is typically a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular facility was assessed 10 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, we need to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This typically suggests that a poor performance spanned several years.

The next category we rated was long-term care, in which this nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade in this area also. It received a lowly F for this category, which is obviously a major concern. Long-term care grades of this caliber 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 quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 78.49462 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.