Eldon Nursing & Rehab

On top of being a strong nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's impressive category scores came in the area of long-term care. We gave them one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 86.38497 percent of its patients. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's next highest area turned out to be short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a C. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The final category we assessed was nursing. We awarded this facility a grade of C in that category. Our nursing score assesses a handful of factors, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This place averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is not an impressive total. Lastly, we look at quality-based statistics, such as the percentage of residents who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these data points are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.