Eliza Jennings Health Campus

The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of A. This is a much better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This nursing home also was awarded a favorable score in our long-term care category. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B+ in that category. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 94.67313 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a low total compared with most other facilities. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. While this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this metric. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.

The next area we rated is short-term care, which was this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave it an F for this category, which is obviously very disappointing. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is more often than not a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.