Clovernook Healthcare

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. There are a number of criteria within this area. Many of these subcategories reflect levels of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We awarded this facility just a D for our short-term care rating. This is well below average in this category. In computing our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is frequently a solid measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Considering its grade in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this place was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected here. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.

The next area we looked at was long-term care. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is an abysmal grade. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to just 81.47059 percent of its residents, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.