AHC Forest Cove

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. Inspection scores are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. There are a number of datapoints within this area. Most of the subcategories are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a low total compared with most other facilities. Lastly, nursing ratings also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

This nursing home also didn't fare too badly in the category of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- in that category, which turned out to be another one of its higher scores. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for individuals requiring more conventional services associated with activities of daily living. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 81.29497 percent of its patients. This is several points lower than what we expected. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Switching gears to our final area, this nursing home really didn't fare very well here either. With a poor grade of F in short-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. Short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Considering its score in this area, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.