Clearview Nursing Center

On top of receiving a great overall rating, this facility performed even better in our inspections category which is associated with the facility's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A for this area, which is one of our highest scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another quality feature for this facility is that it received a favorable long-term care score. Indeed, this proved to be its second best category grade. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of B+. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 95.74468 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. Nursing scores are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Our last area is short-term care, where we gave this nursing home a grade of C in that category. Short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.