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 61.764706 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.

The third best area we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-. Our short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

Moving on our final category of inspections, we gave this nursing home a grade of just D. This turned out to be this facility's worst grade and it really hurt its overall grade. Our inspection grade is based on the facility's government inspection reports. Since the information is collected by government inspectors, we weight it heavily in overall grade. Inspection scores factor in many items on the facility's recent inspection reports. If you see severe deficiencies on the reports, this is generally a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, we would like to point out that this facility was assessed large government fines totaling more than $100,000. This often suggests that a bad track record spanned more than one year.