Four Seasons Living Center

Neither this facility's overall score nor its category grades gave us many positives to write about. Its best area was inspections, but even here we gave it a D. This is a very poor grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. We recommend you pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this place received large government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This generally signifies that a nursing home's bad performance has been an issue for multiple years.

In our next category, we gave this nursing home an F in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care grades are probably more important for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the data we looked at. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics sunk this facility's short-term care score.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care. This facility's received an unfortunate long-term care grade where it was given an F. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 25.974028 percent of its patients, which is slightly concerning. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

The next category we scored was nursing. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in that category. When calculating a facility's nursing grade, we consider the number of hours nurses commit to patients and the levels of training of the nurses. This place averaged a meager 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is well below average. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal scores in several of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hours. For starters, we looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than twice the national average in this metric. This is quite concerning when you consider that many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a weak nursing grade.