Frankfort Rehabilitation and Care

With an address in Frankfort, Kentucky, Frankfort Rehabilitation and Care is one of a mere two nursing homes in this city. This nursing home was given an overall score of F. Based on our assessment, you would be better off to steer clear of this facility. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was short-term care, which is discussed in the next section.

Although this place's overall score was as bad as it gets, it didn't perform terribly in the area of short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which isn't bad. That said, this wasn't enough to save its overall profile. In forming these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. This nursing home elevated its score in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its patients than the average place. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. It performed respectably with 48.4 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an C. Few facilities fared better in this category. Our nursing rating is largely based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, nursing ratings also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

We were also surprised to discover that this facility received a somewhat respectable long-term care grade this year. We gave it a C in this category. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.62825 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.83 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic can be skewed for some facilities based on the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

Turning our last category of inspections, this facility received an F in this area. For places with bad inspection grades, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines recently of over $100,000. This often signifies that a facility's bad performance has been an issue for several years.