Franciscan Health Center

This nursing home received a strong overall score as described above, but we want to emphasize its excellent short-term care score. We gave them an A in this category. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

In addition, this facility excelled in inspections, where it earned a grade of B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Nursing grades are tied to nurse staffing levels. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving residents more frequently.

The final category we looked at is long-term care. It received an abysmal F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. You shouldn't necessarily disregard a nursing home due to one weak score though. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.17073 percent of its patients, which is an above average percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.