Deupree House

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility also received a dominant short-term care grade. This actually is this nursing home's second strongest category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. In computing our short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we looked at was long-term care. We awarded this facility a solid score in this area, with a B-. While this is not as dominant as a few of its other scores, it is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. Long-term care grades focus on a facility's assistance with daily living instead of the skilled therapy or medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is more than the average nursing home. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.