Community Nursing Home of Anaconda

One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing turned out to be its best category. In this category, we awarded this facility an A. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with residents, in computing our grade in this category. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a patient more frequently.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. Adding to its impressive profile, this facility also excelled in this area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A- for the category. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Moving on to our next area, this facility was awarded an extremely favorable long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this area, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 89.04109 percent of its residents. This is slightly less than we were hoping for. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.