Franklin County Transitional Care

On top of receiving a great overall score, this facility excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A for that area. When computing a facility's nursing rating, we assess the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this facility also earned a nearly flawless 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 grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also received a strong long-term care score. This actually is its third best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A-. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.373985 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Switching gears to our final category, this facility also performed well in the short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in that area. This completed truly elite profile. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.