Generations at Mckinley Court

We just could not find anything positive to say about this nursing home. It received a lowly D for short-term care. Sadly, this turned out to be its best grade. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Based on its abysmal rating in this category, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

We wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its inspection score. An F in this category is particularly troublesome because it usually points to red flags on the nursing home's government inspection reports. For facilities with bad inspection grades, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 8 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we would like to point out that this facility received significant government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This typically means that a facility'spoor track record spanned multiple years.

The next category we assessed is long-term care, in which this facility was given an F. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 93.22034 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

The next category we rated is nursing, where this nursing home was given an abysmal grade in this area also. It received an abysmal F for this area, which is definitely very concerning. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these data points to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.