Dunlap Specialty Care

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our nursing rating. The nursing score weighs quite a few components, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

We were also surprised to discover that this facility received a decent short-term care rating this year. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. Our short-term care scores are probably most critical for folks requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.

This facility received really poor inspection reports in recent years, causing them to receive a lowly F for inspections. An F in this area is usually a sign that there were some red flags on the facility's inspections. With facilities that received this bad of an inspection score, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a threat to patient health or safety. 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.

Turning to the next area, this facility really did not perform very well in this area either. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 93.10345 percent of its patients, which is slightly lower than we anticipated. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.