Clinton Healthcare Center

Clinton Healthcare Center is a facility located in Clinton, Maryland, which has a population of 35,421 people. Featuring an overall rating of C, this is likely a middle of the pack facility. Based on our ratings, there are definitely far worse nursing homes out there. The best part of this nursing home's report card is is its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

While this facility earned a decent overall grade, its inspections grade is notably better than its overall score. Due to a strong inspection report this year, it received one of our better scores in that category with a B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it earned a grade of B. Few places fared better in this category. Our nursing score is primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Additionally, we also would like to point out that this nursing home was given impressive short-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B. Short-term care grades are often employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This facility was satisfactory in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered a reasonable level of care from both physical therapists and registered nurses. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. It performed decently in this area, with 46.3 percent of its residents returning home.

The final area we looked at is long-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is obviously a significant disappointment. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.83103 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.55 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.