Community Care Center

Although this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Inspection grades are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily 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. Nursing grades are largely based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home offered just 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This statistic is significantly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's next highest category was long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed relatively badly. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 95.562126 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

The final category we assessed is short-term care. This nursing home was given a very poor grade of F in this category. Short-term care scores are crucial for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.