Douglas Health and Rehabilitation

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our nursing rating. The nursing score weighs several components, however, the most important one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is not an impressive total. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care offered.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care grade and that actually ended up being its second highest category. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Considering its poor grade in this category, we weren't surprised to learn this place provides substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

Our next category we looked at was long-term care, in which this facility received an F. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 74.43946 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

Moving on our final area of inspections, this nursing home received an F in this area. With nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was hit with 2 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.