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 facility also was given an impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded them a B in that area, which happens to be one of our better. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 64.377686 percent of its patients. This is a bit less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we looked at was inspections. This facility didn't receive favorable inspections in recent years. We had to give it an F in this area. Since this data is compiled by independent government inspectors, we tend to heavily weight a poor performance in this area. This really dragged down this place's overall grade. When a place has this bad of an inspection score, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This nursing home had 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This usually indicates that a facility's poor track record spanned multiple years.