East Bank Center

We gave this nursing home one of our better scores in short-term care, where it earned an A. This is much better than the nursing home's overall grade, which was certainly not elite. In our short-term care rating, we endeavor to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility also earned a favorable inspection rating. Its inspection grade proved to be its second best category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-, which is a decent grade. The nursing category analyzes many subcategories, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care offered.

Turning to the final category, we awarded this facility a grade of D for our long-term care category. This is the nursing home's least impressive category score. Naturally, this grade pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities offer. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We weren't able to find this facility's vaccination rates. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.