Claru Deville Nursing Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Our inspection scores are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

This facility also didn't perform too badly in the category of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a B- for that area, which turned out to be among its more respectable grades. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 57.02811 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is several points lower than the national average. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Sadly, this nursing home's next highest score was short-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. Short-term care scores are crucial for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With its abysmal rating in this category, we weren't surprised to learn this nursing home offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

This nursing home's weakest area is nursing, which is the last category we assessed. In this category, we gave this facility a D. There are a number of criteria within this area. Many of these data points relate to nurse staffing. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. In addition to its below average nursing hours, this nursing home received suboptimal scores in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We found that more of this facility's patients sustained falls leading to major injury.