Clark Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center

While we were not very complementary of this facility's overall grade, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This facilities next most favorable category was short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this area. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The critical question is whether this also affected quality of care. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 5.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

The next area we looked at is long-term care. This facility's received an unfortunate long-term care grade where it received a lowly F. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 98.333336 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The next category we rated was nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is a very poor grade. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses commit to residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.