Cedar Hill Healthcare Centre

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this facility an A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. It does not appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Without all of the deficiency related data for this facility, it ended up being challenging to fully grade it in the inspections category.

One of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the category of short-term care. This proved to be its second most respectable category. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our short-term care grades are likely more important for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a C. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.4012 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's weakest area was nursing, which is the final category we analyzed. In this area, we gave this nursing home a D. There are numerous factors within this grade. Most of these factors are tied to staffing levels. This facility provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low total nursing hours per resident, this facility had poor marks in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients having falls which led to serious injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming in light of the fact that many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.