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 facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. There are quite a few factors within this grade. Many of the criteria reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving patients at least once a day.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its short-term care score. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is more often than not a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. 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 final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The last area we assessed is long-term care. We gave this facility one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of B. Although this was not as dominant as a few of this nursing home's other grades, it is still a perfectly acceptable grade. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.