Casey Healthcare Center

While we did not have many favorable things to say about this facility's overall grade, it did receive a respectable nursing grade of B-. Our nursing score considers many subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a relatively low total compared with most nursing homes. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

This facility's second highest area turned out to be its long-term care score, where it received a grade of B-. Long-term care grades are typically used to assess a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 94.303795 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home earned mediocre government inspections in recent years. We gave them a C in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates this facility avoided the more serious categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

The final area we assessed was short-term care, was this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in this category. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this nursing home offers far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical nursing home. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 4.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.