24th Place

Although we did not rate this place favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively solid inspections in recent years. We gave it a B in this area, which was much better than its overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility's next best area was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of C. In crafting our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. In computing a facility's nursing grade, we look at the amount of time nurses commit to patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care offered.

Moving on to our last category, this facility really didn't fare well here either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.