Eastview Terrace

Although this place's overall grade was horrible, it didn't perform quite as poorly in long-term care. We gave it a B- for that category, which isn't bad. Unfortunately, this was not enough to salvage its otherwise weak profile. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's second highest score was short-term care, but it nevertheless earned just a D in that area. This still happens to be a relatively poor grade. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most important for individuals in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its abysmal rating in this category, we weren't shocked to discover that this nursing home offers far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Our nursing rating consists of many datapoints, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This place fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

Turning the final category of inspections, this facility fared very poorly. Sadly, it received an F in our inspection rating. This happens to be our most heavily weighted category in our grading system. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We suggest you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.