Chateau Nrsg & Rehab Center

Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our inspection ratings are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. 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.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an C. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it scored well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facilities third best area is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the road score in this area. In calculating these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on quality of care. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

The next area we graded was long-term care, turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. We awarded this facility a D in this category. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 94.76584 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.