Chateau Nrsg & Rehab Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection ratings are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This nursing home also was given a positive grade in our short-term care category. We gave this nursing home an above average grade of B in that category. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is more often than not a solid measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. Our nursing rating weighs quite a few datapoints, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat concerning figure as it is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. It scored well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

The last area we rated is long-term care, which turned out to be a weak link for this facility. We awarded this facility a grade of D for long-term care. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 95.85635 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.