Flagship Healthcare Center

In addition to having a decent overall score, we also wanted to point out that this facility earned favorable health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a B. This is a notably better score than the nursing home's overall grade. Inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's second best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing rating is primarily tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The third highest category we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. Our short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. We were surprised to find that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. It supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

Switching gears to our last area, this facility was awarded a C for long-term care, which is generally an acceptable rating. Long-term care grades are generally used to gauge a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.06542 percent of its patients, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.