Dawson Place

While we did not have many favorable things to say about this facility's overall grade, it did receive a somewhat respectable inspection report this year. It received a decent grade in this area with a B-. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We also ended up giving this facility a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, although this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it did very well in this metric.

We also awarded this nursing home a decent score in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. In determining our short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this area. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the data points we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 91.666664 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.