Cisco Nursing & Rehabilitation

Although we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent score in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with too many severe deficiencies flagged. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility's second most favorable category is its long-term care score, where it was awarded a grade of C. In determining our long-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.21875 percent of its residents. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's third highest score was short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. Short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

The next area we scored was nursing, in which this nursing home received a rock bottom score in this area as well. It received an F in this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. The nursing grade includes a number of data points. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provided a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. On top of its weak nursing hour totals, this place also earned suboptimal scores in several of the quality-based metrics we considered in determining our nursing ratings. We found that more of this place's residents suffered falls which led to serious injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this place receiving a terrible nursing grade.