Corrigan LTC Nursing & Rehabilitation

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's second most favorable area ended up being its long-term care score, where it was given a grade of B-. Our long-term care grades are more important for people needing more traditional services related to personal care. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's third best area ended up being its short-term care grade, where it was given a grade of B-. Our short-term care scores are presumably most critical for residents needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

Moving on to the fourth category, this nursing home really did not fare well. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this was this facility's poorest category. The nursing score assesses several factors, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This place fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these data points to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.