Deerings Nursing and Rehabilitation

Although we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent grade in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid facilities that had too many deficiencies. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Sadly, this nursing home's second best score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed somewhat poorly. Our short-term care grades are probably most important for individuals in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Sadly, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care grade. For patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 94.318184 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

The last category we scored is nursing. This facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this area. Our nursing score assesses quite a few factors, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. With only 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this nursing home's nursing score significantly.