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. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.49246 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

Unfortunately, this facility received really poor government inspection reports in recent years, causing us to give them an F in our inspection category. An F in this category is typically a signal that we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection score. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility had 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years of more than $100,000. This usually suggests that a bad track record spanned several years.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. The nursing rating weighs several subcategories, many of which are based on nursing hours. This facility averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we assessed is short-term care, where this facility received an abysmal grade in this area as well. It received a lowly F for this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. Our short-term care scores are vital for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With a grade in this range in this category, we were not shocked to find this place was well below average in several staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.