Clinton House Health and Rehab Center

Although this nursing home's overall grade was terrible, it actually performed well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that area, which is one of our better scores. Inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We also wanted to point out this facility's poor long-term care grade where it received a lowly F. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated only 84.58904 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. Nursing scores are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next area we analyzed is short-term care. It received an abysmal F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. Short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its score in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.