Cambria Care Center

Even though this nursing home's overall score was rock bottom, it actually didn't perform as badly in nursing. In fact, we awarded it a C for this category. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the number of hours nurses are seeing patients and the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it scored well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

This facility also didn't perform poorly in the area of short-term care. In fact, we gave it a C for that area, which wound up being among its higher grades. Short-term care scores are crucial for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. It is still important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 4.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

Sadly, this facility received a grade of just D in our inspection category. This is well below average grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. We suggest you scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we want to point out that this place received large government fines in excess of $50,000. This usually suggests that CMS inspectors grew tired after multiple years of failed government inspections.

The final category we scored was long-term care. This facility received a very poor grade of F in this area. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 62.25681 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly below average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.