Capitol View Transitional Care Center

In addition to receiving a great overall rating, this nursing home earned an A+ inspection score. This is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have deficiency data for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without having access to the deficiency related data, it is difficult to evaluate this facility in the area of inspections.

In addition, this nursing home received quality marks in the area of short-term care. Consequently, it was given one of our most impressive grades in that category with a score of A+. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. In determining our nursing ratings, we assess both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility 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 country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.

The last category we looked at is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a grade of B. Believe it or not, this ended up being this nursing home's least impressive area. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when it's lowest score still beats out most nursing homes. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.