Exira Care Center

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Inspection scores are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily something to panic about.

Among its many impressive scores, this nursing home earned an excellent nursing rating. We gave it a grade of B+ in that category. Our nursing rating is primarily tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning patients more often.

The next area we graded was short-term care. This nursing home received a very positive short-term care grade, with a B in the category. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services To have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The last category we looked at was long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in that area. In determining our long-term care grades, we scrutinize the assistance with daily living received by a facility's patients. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 99.39024 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.