Citizens Care and Rehabilitation Center of Frederi

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our short-term care grade. In forming our short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Another one of this facility's quality category scores came in the area of long-term care. We gave them one of our more positive grades in that area, with a score of B+. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.65125 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also wanted to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them a grade of B+ in this category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The final area we graded was nursing. In this category, we gave this nursing home a solid grade of B-. This turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. Our nursing grade is based on a host of subcategories. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percent of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.