Clapps Nursing Center

On top of receiving a great overall score, this place also earned first-rate government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in this category, with an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given a strong long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better grades in that area with a score of B+. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The third area we looked at was short-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of C in this category. Our short-term care grades are critical for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility's worst area was nursing, which is the final category we looked at. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of D. The nursing rating is based on many subcategories, many of which are based on nursing hours. This facility offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.