Eastview Nursing Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B. It actually performed better than most nursing homes in this category. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 95.29412 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Sadly, this facility only earned a grade of D for its short-term care grade, which is not an impressive grade. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With a grade this poor in this area, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home was well below average in many staffing figures we assess. The nursing home offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.

The next category we analyzed was nursing, which was this facility's weakest category. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is clearly very concerning. Our nursing grade weighs many data points. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. 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. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these data points to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.