Elmwood Nursing & Rehab Center

Neither this facility's overall score nor its category scores gave us much to write home about. Its best area was short-term care, but even there it received a grade of just D. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. As you might expect, we found that this facility offers far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its inspection grade. This is a particularly important category. Grades in this range typically point to some red flags on the facility's government inspection reports. When a facility has this poor of an inspection grade, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This particular nursing home had 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we also need to point out that this place was assessed significant government fines recently of more than $100,000. This generally suggests that a facility'sbad track record has been an issue for several years.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. When determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses are with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. 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 determining our nursing grades. This place performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The last category we scored is long-term care. This facility was given a poor grade of F in this category. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility gave the vaccine to a relatively low 31.78808 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.