Franklin Hills Health & Rehab Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our nursing rating. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, although this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this subcategory.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care grade and that actually ended up being its next highest score. Short-term care grades are crucial for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of 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 that eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection grades where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on the inspection reports. When a place has this poor of an inspection grade, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular facility was hit with a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by the government inspectors had potential to pose actual harm to residents. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines amounting to over $100,000. This typically suggests that a poor track record has been an issue for more than one year.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care, where this facility was given a poor grade in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is definitely very concerning. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility vaccinated 94.92386 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable percentage. Surprisingly, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.