Carver Living Center

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-. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies 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.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Another unfortunate development was the F this facility was given in the category of short-term care. Short-term care grades are critical for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.4 percent of its patients returning home.

Moving on to the next category, this facility really did not perform very well here either. Due to a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated 32.656025 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit below the national average. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.