Carillon Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility also earned an A+ inspection grade. This score is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a nursing home. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its elite resume, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care area. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for the category. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also received a first-rate short-term care grade. Indeed, this is this nursing home's third strongest category score. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our short-term care grade is typically used to judge a facility's rehabilitation services To offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The last category we rated is nursing. This nursing home was given a favorable nursing grade in our assessment, with a grade of B-. While this is not as strong as several of its other grades, this is nevertheless a decent rating in this category. We assessed the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in determining our score in this area. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Although this facility didn't have as many nursing hours as many of the other facilities we looked at, it was still better than average in the area of preventing falls. This is often a reliable indicator of how carefully a facility's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses and safety protocols are in place.