Coffman Nursing Home

On top of earning a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. There are a variety of factors within this grade. Many of the subcategories reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to its profile, this facility also received a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is often a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding another impressive category grade, we gave this facility an impressive grade of B+ for our inspections category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

The next category we rated was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a B. This facility turned out to be relatively strong in each area we assessed. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 97.95918 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.