Cisco Nursing & Rehabilitation

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with a bunch of deficiencies flagged. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home was given its next best category score in the category of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 94.28571 percent of its residents. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we looked at is short-term care. This nursing home was given a poor grade of F in that area. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Based on its abysmal grade in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.