Gem City Nursing & Rehab

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better scores in that category, with an A. This is a notably better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of this nursing home's better category grades was in the category of short-term care. This wound up being its second best category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a C. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. We looked at the levels of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, while this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of our quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this metric.

The next category we rated is long-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. It received an abysmal F in this area, which is certainly very concerning. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the data points we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.75 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.