Coon Memorial Home

While we graded this facility extremely poorly overall, it earned a more respectable long-term care grade this year. We gave it a B- in that area. With our long-term care score, we focus on the volume of services provided by a nursing home, as well as some qualitative metrics. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 80.588234 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our short-term care grade and that actually turned out to be its next highest score. In our short-term care score, we strive to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Given its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the figures we assessed. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care score.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. The nursing grade is based on a host of factors. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This number is quite a bit below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these datapoints to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. When a facility has this poor of an inspection rating, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.