Cameron Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this place also earned first-rate health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our best grades in this area, with a grade of A-. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. We were not able to track down deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this facility a score of A- for our long-term care grade. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.445595 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home received a favorable short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that area with a score of B+. With our short-term care rating, we seek to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The final category we scored was nursing, where this nursing home received a B-. This ended up being this facility's least impressive category. This is nevertheless not a bad grade. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care provided.