Camelot Nursing and Rehab Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it earned an impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an A-. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with too many severe deficiencies flagged. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this facility was given just a D in that category. Unfortunately, this wound up being one of its better features. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is frequently a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Given its weak rating in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this nursing home offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care grade.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses are seeing patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This statistic is well below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next area we assessed was long-term care, in which this nursing home received a very poor score in this category also. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is definitely a major disappointment. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 45.19231 percent of its patients, which is slightly concerning. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.