Evergreen Health and Rehab Center

While we did not give this nursing home a good overall grade, we surprisingly awarded it a strong grade in long-term care, where it earned a B. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 95.78164 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an C. The nursing grade is based on quite a few subcategories, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a relatively low total compared with most nursing homes. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

This nursing home received slightly below average government inspections in recent years. We gave them a C in this area. We believe that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories G through L. This indicates this facility dodged the more serious classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

The next category we scored was short-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that area. Short-term care grades are commonly used to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. To have quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. With its grade in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the figures we assessed. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 5 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.