Circle of Care

This nursing home's best category grade came in the area of inspections. In this area, we gave this facility a grade of B. It actually outperformed most facilities in this area. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's next best category came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. Our short-term care grades are probably most important for those needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The more important thing is determining what effect this had on the quality of care. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. Our nursing score assesses quite a few subcategories, however, the primary one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

The final category we analyzed is long-term care, which is a weak spot for this nursing home. We gave this facility a D for the area of long-term care. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.305084 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.