Coffman Nursing Home

This nursing home earned an inspection grade which is better than its overall grade. Inspection ratings are associated with a facility's recent health inspections. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in this category. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility also received a positive long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B in this area, which is one of our more favorable scores. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.3421 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's third most favorable category ended up being its short-term care score, where it received a C. In forming these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The next area we graded is nursing, which turned out to be this facility's weakest category. We gave it an F in this area, which is clearly very concerning. Our nursing score includes quite a few data points, however, the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.1 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 computing our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.