Clarendon Nursing Home

Although we did not rate this facility highly overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid facilities that had too many deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

The second best category we awarded this nursing home in any area came in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a C. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated only 51.741295 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Our third category we analyzed was short-term care, where this facility received an F. Our short-term care grade is generally used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. With its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The next area we looked at was nursing. It received a lowly F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. In determining our nursing grades, we weigh both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. In addition to its below average nursing hours, this place earned suboptimal scores in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We found that more of this facility's residents suffered falls leading to major injury. We believe that many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a terrible nursing score.