Chisolm Trail Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

We awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A- for our long-term care grade. This score is far more impressive than its overall score. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 97.38806 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also wanted to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our inspection scores are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facilities next best category is short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this area. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be most important for residents needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The last area we assessed is nursing, which is this facility's worst area. We awarded this facility a D in this area. Of course, this category hurt the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. There are quite a few subcategories within this grade. Many of the data points reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.