Evangelical Home - Saline

This facility really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. If it wasn't for this category, this facility's overall grade would have been much worse. Short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing score is mostly tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a patient even once per day.

This facilities next best area is long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road score in this category. Long-term care grades are often used to gauge a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the vaccine to a relatively low 84.69657 percent of its residents. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In our last category of inspections, this facility received a horrible grade. Unfortunately, with an F in the inspection category, this nursing home's overall grade was adversely affected. For places with poor inspection ratings, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines of more than $100,000. This usually suggests that a poor track record has been an issue for more than one year.