Coon Memorial Home

One of the reasons this place is a strong facility is that it received a very impressive inspection score. In fact, inspections is its best category. In that area, we awarded this facility an A. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this facility a score of A for our long-term care grade. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 93.650795 percent of its residents. This is slightly below what we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care offered.

The final area we assessed is short-term care. This nursing home was given an above average short-term care grade in our assessment, with a C. Although this was not nearly as impressive as several of its other category grades, this is nevertheless an acceptable grade for that category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.