Franklin Plaza Extended Care

On top of having a decent overall score, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home earned favorable inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in this category, with a B+. This is a notably better grade than the nursing home's overall score. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Another one of this facility's better category scores came in the category of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return 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-. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

Switching gears to our last area, this facility was given a grade of C in long-term care, which is generally an acceptable grade. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.411766 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable statistic. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.