Citizens Care Center

This nursing home's best category grade came in the area of inspections. In this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This facility also received a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B in this category, which happens to be one of our better. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This facilities next most favorable category was long-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average score in this category. In the category of long-term care, we look at the quantity of services offered by a nursing home, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.62533 percent of its patients. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next category we analyzed was nursing. This nursing home received a grade of C in the category. The nursing score weighs several data points, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.