Cody Regional Health Long Term Care Center

Cody Regional Health Long Term Care Center is located in Cody, Wyoming. This nursing home proved to be a very solid facility, with an overall grade of B. Based on our analysis, you can do much worse than this nursing home. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its nursing grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing turned out to be its best category. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A-. The nursing rating assesses many components, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. At least one fourth of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing care. In determining our nursing ratings, we apply more weight to hours provided by more highly trained nurses such as registered nurses. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as good measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility also excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- for that category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A few minor dings are not something to panic about.

This facility is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of B. It performed better than most facilities in this category. Our short-term care scores are presumably most important for residents in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This facility elevated its score in this area by offering more care from registered nurses than a typical nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 40.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next category we looked at is long-term care, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a D in that area. Of course, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.09886 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.94 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.