Focused Care of Center

Although we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a relatively impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that category with a grade of B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care score and that actually wound up as its next most respectable score. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most meaningful for residents requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. There are a host of subcategories within this grade. Most of the criteria reflect levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Turning to our final category, this facility did not fare well in this area either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is about as terrible as it gets. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.