Denison Care Center

To go along with its decent overall grade, we awarded this facility an A for its inspection grade. This score is far better than the facility's overall score. Inspection grades are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

One of this nursing home's better category grades came in the area of short-term care. This ended up being its second best category. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Nursing scores are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

This nursing home's worst category was long-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinates 96.07843 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.