Danville Care Center

This facilities grades were terrible across the board. In particular, we wanted to draw your attention to its poor nursing grade where it received an F. Our nursing score is based on numerous datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Unfortunately, this nursing home earned an F for its inspection score. This is a particularly important category. Grades in this range generally point to some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. For places with bad inspection grades, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This facility was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by CMS had potential to create actual harm to residents. In addition to having severe deficiencies, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

Another issue is the F this nursing home was given in the area of long-term care. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 96.72897 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

The final area we analyzed is short-term care. This nursing home received a rock bottom grade of F in this category. In determining these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Considering its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.