Christian Health Center

On top of being a strong nursing home overall, this place especially excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A. Few facilities fared better in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this nursing home's above average category grades came in the area of long-term care. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a score of B+. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. 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 facility gave the vaccine to 86.09271 percent of its residents, which is a few points below what we anticipated. Fortunately, this place keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.17 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a substantially better hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. We weighed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in determining our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we scored was short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B. This facility didn't prove to have any noticeable weaknesses. Our short-term care scores are presumably more meaningful for individuals requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. It performed better than most facilities in this area with 54.1 percent of its patients returning home.