Carthage Senior Care

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its elite resume, this facility also excelled in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that area. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 97.88732 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility also received a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B in this category. Our short-term care grades are probably more critical for patients needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we graded was nursing. This nursing home received a favorable nursing grade in our assessment, with a grade of B-. While this was not quite as strong as many of its other category grades, this is still an acceptable score for that category. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This place provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a relatively low total compared with most other facilities. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this metric. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving residents more often.