Floy Dyer Nursing Home

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

We also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received a great short-term care grade. In fact, it received one of our most favorable grades in this category with a grade of A-. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to create a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. The nursing rating includes quite a few datapoints, but the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is far below average. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

This nursing home's worst category was long-term care, which is the final category we assessed. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinates 96.95122 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.