Frankfort Terrace

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. It doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this nursing home. Without having information regarding deficiencies, it is difficult to really assess this nursing home in the inspections category.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an B+. Our nursing grade assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at 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.

Turning to our third area, this nursing home also received a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. Short-term care grades are commonly used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation To provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The last category we rated is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B. This facility did not prove to have any weak grades. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.