Frankfort Community Care Home

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 56.122448 percent of its residents against pneumonia. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In addition, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A-. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although 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 means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. In calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for residents as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we rated was short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility an acceptable grade of B-. This is this facility's weakest area. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. It doesn't look like this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.