Caton Park Rehab and Nursing Center

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive score in our long-term care category. We awarded this nursing home a better than average grade of B in this category. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 77.411766 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a few points less than we were hoping for but still a decent figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's second lowest category was short-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a relatively poor grade. Short-term care grades are commonly used to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. With a score in this range in this area, we were not stunned to discover this nursing home was well below average in the two key staffing metrics we focus on. The facility supplied substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 5.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

The last category we looked at was nursing, which was this facility's worst area. We gave this nursing home a D in this area. Our nursing rating considers a variety of subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This facility was above average in two of the statistics we focus on, with good marks for avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These metrics are generally good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.