Catherine's Care Center

This nursing home received an elite long-term care grade. We gave it an A- in this category, which really bumped up its overall grade. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 67.12329 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is slightly lower than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in that category, which is one of our better scores. Our nursing grade is primarily based on the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also awarded this nursing home an impressive grade in short-term care. This nursing home earned a B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Moving on our final category of inspections, this nursing home received an F in this area. This score was detrimental to this nursing home's overall score. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This particular facility was hit with 2 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines recently of more than $100,000. This usually suggests that a nursing home's bad track record has been an issue for several years.