Citadel Post Acute

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Short-term care ratings are important for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. When determining a facility's nursing score, we look at the number of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to the final area, this facility received an extremely favorable long-term care score. While this was not quite as strong as several of its other category grades, this is still one of our more impressive grades a facility can receive. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.969696 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a life threatening health condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.