Flanagan Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center

This nursing home received a favorable short-term care score this year. We awarded them a strong grade in that category, with a B. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score and was a boost to its overall profile. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a strong inspection grade. Inspection grades are based on the facility's recent government inspections. We gave this facility an above average grade of B in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

The last category we looked at was long-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this facility a D in that category. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.