Eaglewood Care Center

While we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with a grade of A-. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid facilities that have too many severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility only earned a grade of D for its long-term care grade, which is actually one of its better category scores. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

Another issue is the F this nursing home was given in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care grades are presumably more important for those needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Considering its weak score in this category, we were not shocked to discover that this facility offers far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning to the last category, this facility really did not fare very well in this category either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is just about as terrible as it gets. Our nursing grade includes many data points, however, the most important one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. With a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this facility's nurse staffing levels were far below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these data points to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.