Evergreen Health and Rehab Center

Even though we couldn't find many positive things to say about this nursing home's overall score, it did receive a better long-term care grade of B-. Our long-term care ratings are more important for those in need of more traditional assistance related to activities of daily living. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinates 96.464645 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next highest area we gave this facility in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a B-. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. The facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home earned slightly below average government inspections in recent years. We gave them a grade of C in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. This facility had 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This indicates this facility avoided the more significant categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

The last area we looked at is nursing. We awarded this nursing home a C in that area. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in computing our grade in this category. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this subcategory. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning residents at least once a day.