Franklin Heights Nursing & Rehabilitation

While we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it received a very impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. Inspection ratings are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's next best category is long-term care, but it nevertheless earned just a D in that category. This is still a relatively poor score. For residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The next category we looked at was short-term care. This facility's received a low-end short-term care grade where it received a lowly F. In our short-term care category, we strive to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home didn't perform very well in this area either. With a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is really as bad as it gets. Our nursing score weighs a variety of factors. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.