Eagle Pointe Skilled Nursing & Rehab

Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B for our inspections rating. This score is far better than the facility's overall score. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with a bunch of deficiencies flagged. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of this facility's more favorable category grades was in the category of long-term care. This turned out to be its second most respectable category. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. In calculating our long-term care scores, we analyze the assistance with daily living received by a nursing home's patients. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This place keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's second lowest score is short-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a relatively poor score. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is generally a reliable assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Considering its weak grade in this category, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The final category we assessed is nursing. This facility was given a rock bottom grade of F in that category. There are a number of subcategories included in this category. Many of the criteria reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is well below average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.