Christian Care Center of Mckenzie

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. Its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this category. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Sadly, this facility's next best category is short-term care. However, with a D in this area, it still performed relatively badly. Our short-term care ratings are presumably more important for people in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We found that this facility was subpar in the two key staffing metrics we assessed. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

This facility's worst area is nursing, which is the last category we looked at. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area. Despite several solid scores in other areas, this grade is still disappointing so we wanted to make sure you are aware. Nursing grades are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.