Freelandville Community Home

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in that category, which is one of our better scores. Our nursing rating is mostly tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Indiana in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a resident more often.

This facility's third most favorable category turned out to be its short-term care score, where it received a grade of B-. In our short-term care rating, we attempt to create a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.

Switching gears to the last area, we awarded this nursing home a D for our long-term care category. This is the nursing home's weakest category rating. Sadly, this category pulled down the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. For patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.