Christian Care Nursing Center

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

Included in this nursing home's host of poor scores was its F in the area of long-term care. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. 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 facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

This nursing home wound up receiving a a very poor grade in our short-term care area. It received a lowly F in this category. Short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final area we graded was nursing, in which this facility was given a bottom of the barrel score in this area also. It received an abysmal F in this area, which is definitely a major concern. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. This facility provided just 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these data points to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.