Diamond Care Center

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This nursing home also was given a strong long-term care score. Indeed, we gave it a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our more favorable scores. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 92.30769 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a decent figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another concern was the F this nursing home received in the area of short-term care. Short-term care grades are generally employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care grade.

This nursing home's weakest category is nursing, which is the final category we scored. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area. Even with multiple decent grades in other categories, this grade is still of a concern so we would like to to make sure you are aware. The nursing category assesses quite a few components, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This particular place provided a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This statistic is well below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility had really bad scores in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents having falls which led to major injury. This nursing home was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is quite concerning in light of the fact that so many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a poor nursing rating.