Catherine's Care Center

This facility's best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B+. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this category. There are a host of subcategories included in this area. Most of these subcategories are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a B+ in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Our short-term care grades are thought to be more critical for those in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

We awarded this facility just a D for our long-term care rating. This is not a score to write home about. Facilities that don't fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We were disappointed to learn that this nursing home vaccinated just 74.35898 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

The final category we assessed is inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave it an F in this category. This dragged down this nursing home's overall score quite a bit. For facilities with poor inspection ratings, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This usually means that a facility's bad track record spanned several years.