Christian Care Nursing Center

To pair with its strong overall score, we gave this facility an A for short-term care. Short-term care scores are meaningful for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home has received near flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this area. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. In calculating our nursing ratings, we analyze both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final area we analyzed was long-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B-. This ended up being this facility's least impressive category. This is still not the end of the world. With our long-term care rating, we analyze the sheer quantity of services offered by a facility, as well as some qualitative data points. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.