Clearview Nursing Center

While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it an A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Our inspection grades are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid facilities with severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility's next most favorable area is long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. In our long-term care rating, we focus more on the sheer quantity of services provided by a facility, along with a series of qualitative metrics. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this nursing home vaccinated just 81.08108 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the category of short-term care, this facility was awarded just a D in that area. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. With its grade in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.

Moving on to our last category, this facility really didn't perform very well in this area either. Due to a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is just about as bad as it gets. We weighed the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this area. This facility offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this statistic.