Capital Transitional Care

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

This nursing home also didn't grade out too badly in the category of short-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of B- for that area, which turned out to be another one of its higher scores. Our short-term care grade is often used to score a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

This nursing home also didn't perform terribly in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is another one its better scores. The nursing score includes many components, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a relatively low total compared to most facilities. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. While this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it did well in this subcategory. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a patient even once per day.

The last area we assessed is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade in this area as well. We gave it an F for this area, which is definitely very concerning. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.611115 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.