Citadel Post Acute

To go along with its favorable overall score, we gave this place an A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

We also gave this facility a score of A- for our short-term care score. Our short-term care scores are likely more meaningful for folks needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing grade weighs numerous factors. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we looked at was long-term care. This nursing home was given a very good long-term care grade this year, with a grade of B. This nursing home truly doesn't have any weak areas. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.72727 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.