Concordia Nursing & Rehab

This facility received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B. In calculating our nursing scores, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home was awarded its third most favorable category score in the area of short-term care. We awarded this facility a C in this area, which is a respectable score. Our short-term care scores are vital for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The final category we looked at is long-term care, proved to be this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in that category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 93.51852 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.