Chandler Nursing Center

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also gave this facility a strong score in long-term care. This nursing home earned a B in this category, which happens to be one of our higher grades. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.492386 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. We assessed the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with patients, in calculating our rating in this category. With a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were far below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Moving on to our final category, this facility didn't perform well. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is this nursing home's worst category grade. Our short-term care ratings are probably most critical for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. With its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the data we looked at. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.