City View Multicare Center

This facilities grades were terrible across the board. In particular, we wanted to draw your attention to its poor nursing grade where it received an F. Nursing ratings are mostly tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

Tragically, this facility received an F for its short-term care score. In computing our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Our third area we graded was long-term care, where this facility received an F. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. After we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated a relatively low 55.844154 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

The last category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home didn't receive glowing government inspections in recent years. As a result, we had to give it an F in this category. With nursing homes that received this poor of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was hit with 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.