Chinle Nursing Home is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Chinle, Arizona. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A score of this caliber requires some decent marks. In our view, this facility ought to be a solid choice for most people. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category was long-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
Chinle Nursing Home
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
Specialized Services
- Physical Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home really excelled in the category of long-term care, where it received an A. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.1831 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was awarded a strong grade in our short-term care category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in that area. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.
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Nurse Quality
Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-, which is a decent grade. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, nursing grades also consider quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its patients.
Facility Inspections
The last category we assessed is inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This pulled down this facility's overall grade significantly. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection rating. We recommend you scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This facility was assessed one category J through K deficiency, which are among the worst deficiencies. Finally, we also need to point out that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This generally suggests that a nursing home's bad track record spanned several years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Chinle Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Chinle Nursing Home, 8.97% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Chinle Nursing Home, 2.2% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing care minimizes the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Chinle Nursing Home, 1.68% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often linked to nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. More frequent bathing limits the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this statistic is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Chinle Nursing Home, 11.03% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure measures the percent of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Chinle Nursing Home, 16.78% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Chinle Nursing Home, 3.1% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Chinle Nursing Home, 80.03% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Chinle Nursing Home, 12.44% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Chinle Nursing Home, 20.97% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels. Many believe that mobility is important for patients well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Chinle Nursing Home, 1.3 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is key to maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Chinle Nursing Home, 20.97 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.