Frankfort Terrace Nursing Center

This nursing home received an inspection score which is stronger than its overall grade. Inspection grades are associated with a facility's recent inspections. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category scores was in the area of short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. It actually performed better than most facilities in this area. In crafting these short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. The nursing score is based on many datapoints, but the primary one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, while this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this metric.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. This nursing home received a C for the category. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.