Electra Healthcare Center

While this nursing home's overall score was as bad as it gets, it fared pretty well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that area, which is one of our better scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through 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 few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility's next most respectable score was short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more important for patients needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our long-term care grade. This is not a score to write home about. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Turning to the fourth area, this nursing home really did not fare well here either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is really as terrible as it gets. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. To go along with its low total nursing hours per patient, this place had poor marks in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents sustaining falls leading to serious injury. This nursing home was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming in light of the fact that many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a poor nursing score.