Central Health Care

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A. Few facilities fared better in this area. Our nursing score analyzes quite a few datapoints, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Among the reasons we rated this facility so favorably is that it received a favorable short-term care grade. In fact, short-term care ended up being its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our short-term care grades are considered to be most important for folks in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In addition, this nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded it a grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our best grades. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Switching gears to our final area, we gave this facility a D for long-term care. This is the facility's weakest category rating. Naturally, this category pulled down the facility's overall profile to some degree. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.