Gateway Care & Rehabilitation Center

To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its inspection grade. This is far better than its overall rating. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's long-term care grade is one of its best features. The facility was awarded a grade of B- in this category. In our long-term care score, we assess the sheer volume of care offered by a nursing home, along with a series of qualitative datapoints. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next area we assessed is short-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of C in this area. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is generally a reliable assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. It supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Switching gears to our final area, we awarded this nursing home a D for the area of nursing. This was the nursing home's weakest category rating. Our nursing rating analyzes 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 offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is an alarmingly low total. This nursing home also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of patients suffering pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This nursing home was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric.