Christian Care Home

While we did not rate this nursing home well overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable nursing score this year. We gave it a B+ in this category, which was much better than its overall rating. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our inspections rating. This score is more respectable than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This tells you this facility avoided the more serious categories of deficiencies. Finally, they also received 28 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is certainly not a great sign.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a D for its short-term care grade, which is not one of our better scores. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This score is often a reliable assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Not surprisingly, we found that this place provides significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical nursing home. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.3 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below the national average.

The next category we assessed was long-term care, which turned out to be a low point for this facility. We awarded this facility a grade of D in long-term care. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated only 68 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.