Friendship Health and Rehab Center

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this category. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Additionally, we also wanted to note that this facility was given positive short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our higher grades in this category, with a B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second highest grade. Our short-term care ratings are important for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In addition, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was awarded favorable long-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our more impressive grades in this area, with a B. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.14529 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Switching gears to our next area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D in our nursing category. This is the facility's least impressive category rating. Of course, this category hurt the nursing home's overall grade a bit. Nursing ratings are tied to levels of nurse staffing. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these data points to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.