Cheyenne Medical Lodge

Although this facility's overall grade was terrible, it fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid facilities that have a long list of severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Without having complete deficiency data for this nursing home, it ended up being a challenge to really evaluate the place in this area.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care grade and that actually turned out to be its second most favorable score. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.05882 percent of its residents, which is more than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The next category we graded was short-term care. This facility's was given an unfortunate short-term care score where it was given a lowly F. Our short-term care grades are believed to be more important for individuals requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. With its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we considered the number of patients that returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final category we rated is nursing, in which this facility received an abysmal grade in this category also. Sadly, it received an F for this category, which is definitely a major disappointment. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This place averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Lastly, we also looked at some quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home was above average in two of the areas we focus on, with solid marks for avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These data points are generally good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.