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 short-term care score. Indeed, this wound up being its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a B+. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In addition, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a score of B+. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.06542 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we assessed is nursing, where this facility was awarded a B. This facility turned out to be very solid across the board. Our nursing score is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place 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.