Clairmont Longview

We could not find anything positive to say about this place. It received a D in long-term care. Tragically, this was its best grade. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 92.02128 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a bit less than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

We awarded this facility just a D for our short-term care rating and that actually turned out to be its second highest category. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. With a grade this poor in this category, we weren't shocked to learn that this facility was below average in many staffing areas we assess. The facility supplied substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. There are numerous subcategories within this area. Most of these subcategories relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This statistic is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these datapoints to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning our last area of inspections, this facility received an F in this area. Since this information is collected by government inspectors, we heavily weight poor results in this area. When a facility has this bad of an inspection rating, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This particular nursing home was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received significant government fines recently totaling more than $100,000. This typically indicates that a nursing home's poor performance has been an issue for more than one year.