Casey Healthcare Center

Although we gave this place a weak overall grade, we actually gave it a fairly respectable grade in the category of inspections, where it received a B-. This was better than its other categories. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

We also ended up giving this facility a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B-. In computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses commit to residents as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it did well in this area. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a patient more often.

This facilities next most favorable category was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road score in this area. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the number 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. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The last area we scored was long-term care, which is this nursing home's weakest category. We gave this facility a grade of D in this category. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated just 73.8806 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.