Fulton Center for Rehabilitation

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's next highest category was short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. With our short-term care assessment, we seek to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The key is determining what effect this had on quality of care. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 4.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Our nursing score is primarily associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next category we rated was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel score in this area also. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 95.71865 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.