Emerald Care

While we were down on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B+ in nursing. The nursing score analyzes quite a few datapoints, but the main consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility was awarded its second most favorable category score in the category of long-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of B- in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. With our long-term care rating, we focus on the quantity of care offered by a nursing home, as well as a series of qualitative metrics. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.5348 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Sadly, this facility received a grade of just D in our inspection category. This is well below average grade. One of the more critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We recommend you scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home had 11 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we want to point out that this place was assessed significant government fines exceeding $50,000. This usually suggests that inspectors became fed up after multiple years of failed health inspections.

The final area we analyzed is short-term care. This nursing home was given an abysmal grade of F in this area. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.