Clark Retirement Community

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. Our nursing score consists of quite a few factors, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving residents even once per day.

Adding to its first-rate resume, this nursing home also was awarded a superb long-term care grade, with a grade of A. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 83.45864 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we anticipated. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Tallying another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the final area, this facility received an excellent short-term care rating. Even though this is not quite as strong as a few of its other category grades, this is still one of the more impressive grades we offer. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more critical for individuals in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.