Clinton County Nursing Home

On top of earning a strong overall rating, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is based on the facility's recent inspections. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category, which is one of our best grades. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

In addition, this nursing home also received favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we awarded it one of our stronger grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Short-term care grades are important for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing score looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.3 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 when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we graded was long-term care. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 72.39819 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points below what we expected. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.