Eastman Healthcare & Rehab

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid places with too many severe deficiencies flagged. This facility was assessed 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Sadly, this nursing home's second highest score was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed somewhat badly. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is not an impressive grade. Our short-term care grade is often employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home offers significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical nursing home. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this facility's short-term care score.

The last area we rated is nursing. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal score. Our nursing rating consists of a handful of subcategories, however, the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.