Eaglewood Care Center

While this facility's overall grade was terrible, it actually performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

As it turns out, this nursing home only earned a D for its short-term care grade, which happens to be one of its more respectable category scores. Short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.5 percent of its patients returning home.

The third area we assessed is long-term care. This nursing home's received an abysmal long-term care score where it received an F. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable datapoint. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

The next category we assessed was nursing. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this category, which is a rock bottom score. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. This nursing home also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.