Centerville Healthcare Center

Although we didn't grade this nursing home favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with a bunch of severe deficiencies flagged. This facility was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility only received a grade of D for its short-term care score, which turns out to be one of its more favorable category grades. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most critical for folks in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its score in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this place is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected here. The last item we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. The nursing grade assesses several factors, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility's worst area is long-term care, which is the last category we looked at. In this area, we gave this nursing home a D. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.0198 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable datapoint. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.