Clyde Nursing Center

On top of receiving a great overall rating, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that area, which is one of our highest grades. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was awarded high scores in the area of long-term care as well. In fact, it received one of our best scores in that area with a area of A. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.88 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home is just about middle of the road in this area.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this was not one of this facility's strong suits. We awarded it a grade of D in this category. Clearly, this facility performed much better in the categories discussed above. The nursing rating is based on a handful of datapoints, however, the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. While this nursing home's nursing hours are below average, it surprised us in a few of the qualitative datapoints in this category. In particular, we were pleased to find that its patients are suffering fewer pressure ulcers than the national average.

Turning to our last category, this facility did not perform well. With a poor grade of F in that area, this was obviously this facility's worst grade. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more meaningful for residents in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we discovered that this facility offered less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home did not fare well here either. We found that just 45.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was below the national average.