Covenant Village Nursing & Rehabilitation

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 94.03509 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home was awarded its next highest category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in this category, which is a decent grade. Our short-term care scores are thought to be more important for individuals needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. It does not look like this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Switching gears to our last category, we awarded this facility a grade of D for the area of nursing. This is the facility's least impressive category rating. Unfortunately, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in determining our rating in this category. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic pulled down this nursing home's nursing score significantly.