Clearview Nursing Center

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of A. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also performed favorably in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Not many facilities fared more favorably in this area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 95.56962 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of D. Our nursing rating assesses several subcategories, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This facility offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to our final area, this nursing home really didn't fare very well. With a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is its worst category grade. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.