Founders Plaza Nursing & Rehab

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility was given its second highest category grade in the area of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. Our long-term care grade focuses on a nursing home's assistance with daily living rather than the skilled therapy or medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to only 68.46473 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing rating analyzes many datapoints, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below average. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

This facility's worst area was short-term care, which is the final area we scored. Sadly, it received an F in this category. Despite multiple solid grades in other areas, this score is nevertheless alarming so we wanted to point it out. Our short-term care scores are critical for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With a score this poor for this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this facility was well below average in two of the key staffing figures we looked at. In fact, it offered significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.