Centennial Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's second most favorable area ended up being its long-term care grade, where it received a grade of C. Our long-term care ratings are more important for folks requiring more conventional assistance related to activities of daily living. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.70968 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home 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.

Sadly, this facility's next highest score is short-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this area, it still performed somewhat poorly. Our short-term care scores are critical for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its grade in this category, we were not stunned to find that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 5.1 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.

Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home really didn't fare well. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this was this facility's poorest grade. Nursing scores are largely tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This place also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.