Clinton County Nursing Home

This nursing home received a strong overall score as described above, but we want to note its excellent short-term care score. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Short-term care grades are often employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility also performed well in inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. Few facilities with an overall grade in this range performed this well in multiple categories. Inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Facilities that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily something to panic about.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Nursing scores are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to the final area, this nursing home really did not perform very well. Due to a poor grade of F in this area, this is clearly this facility's poorest category. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated a relatively low 88.52459 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.