Christian Care Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing grade is mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This statistic is significantly below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home's received a low-end long-term care score where it received a lowly F. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.4709 percent of its patients, which is better than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

The last category we rated was short-term care. This facility received a rock bottom grade of F in that area. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. With a grade in this range for this category, we weren't stunned to find this nursing home was below average in several staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this facility's short-term care grade.