Cisco Nursing & Rehabilitation

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

We awarded this facility just a D for our long-term care score and that actually wound up as its second most respectable score. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care may not provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities provide. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 92.666664 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing score weighs a handful of datapoints, but the most important one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This place performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we analyzed is short-term care. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in this category. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. With a grade this poor in this category, we were not stunned to find that this place was below average in several staffing areas we assess. In fact, it provided substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.6 percent of its patients returning home.