Estates Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

While we didn't give this facility a good overall grade, we did give it a relatively strong grade in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. Our nursing grade is primarily based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this metric. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient more frequently.

Sadly, this nursing home's third highest score was long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared relatively badly. Nursing homes that do not fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to just 87.66234 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

The final area we analyzed was short-term care. This facility was given a poor grade of F in this category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Considering its weak score in this area, we were not surprised to discover that this place offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.