Franciscan Health Center

On top of earning a great overall rating, this facility fared even better in our inspections category which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. We awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. 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.

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. When calculating our nursing scores, we analyze both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The third area we graded is short-term care. This nursing home was given a favorable short-term care score, with a B+ in this category. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This facility's worst area is long-term care, which is the last area we assessed. For this area, we gave this facility a D. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 95.34884 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.