Callaway Nursing Home

To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in determining our grade in this category. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving patients even once per day.

We also awarded this facility a favorable score in short-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B+ in this category, which turns out to be one of our more favorable grades. Short-term care grades are typically employed to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facilities third most favorable category is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this category. Our long-term care ratings are more critical for residents needing more conventional services associated with activities of daily living. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 82.24852 percent of its patients. This is many points lower than the national average. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we assessed is inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This ended up pulling down this facility's overall score significantly. For facilities with bad inspection ratings, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we also want to point out that this place received significant government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This often suggests that a facility's poor performance has been an issue for more than one year.