Clairmont Beaumont

In addition to receiving a poor overall grade, we also gave this nursing home poor scores across the board in our categories. In fact, it received a D for its short-term care rating, which was its highest grade. Short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this facility offers significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below average.

This nursing home didn't receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, it received a grade of just D for its inspection score, which was unfortunately its second best category. One of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We suggest you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

This facility ended up receiving a bottom of the barrel score in our long-term care area. It received a lowly F in this category. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.66555 percent of its residents, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

The final category we analyzed is nursing. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal grade. The nursing score assesses a handful of factors, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were far below average. In addition to receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found this place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric.