Clinton Gardens

To go along with its favorable overall performance, we awarded this place an A+ for the area of inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Another quality feature for this facility is that it was awarded an impressive long-term care score. Indeed, this wound up being its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a B. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 97.34513 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's third most favorable area is short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The next category we rated is nursing. This nursing home was awarded a B- in the category. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. While this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this statistic. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving patients more often.