Christian Health Center

On top of being a strong nursing home overall, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Not many facilities performed better in that category. Inspection ratings are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given impressive scores in the category of long-term care as well. Consequently, it received one of our most favorable grades in that area with a area of A-. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 80.30303 percent of its residents. This is somewhat below what we expected. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home is also above average in the category of short-term care, where it was given a grade of B. It outperformed most facilities in this area. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility was awarded a C for nursing, which we consider to be a respectable grade. Our nursing score focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.