Eastland Health Care and Rehabilitation Center

Although we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it received a relatively impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our better grades in that category with a B. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid facilities that have a long list of deficiencies. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. The nursing grade analyzes a handful of factors, most of which are based on nursing hours. 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. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This place performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our long-term care grade. This is not an impressive grade. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated only 81.33803 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

Moving on to our next area, this nursing home really did not perform well in this area either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. Our short-term care ratings are arguably more important for patients needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Based on its score in this category, we weren't stunned to learn that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we looked at. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.