Fox Subacute at Clara Burke

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home received its second highest category grade in the area of short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this area, which is a respectable score. Our short-term care grades are probably most critical for residents in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. It offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

We were surprised to find that this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it an impressive grade of D for that category, which is one of our best scores. In calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the number of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This place averaged only 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home received a very poor grade of F in this area. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 88.57143 percent of its patients. This is pretty significantly lower than average. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.