Generations at Regency

While we didn't give this place a good overall grade, we did give it a relatively strong grade in the area of inspections, where it received a B+. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

One of this nursing home's better category scores came in the category of short-term care. This wound up being its second most respectable category. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B-. Our short-term care ratings are probably most important for those needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The critical question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. The last item we assessed 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 4.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

This nursing home's second worse score is long-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a well below average score. Facilities that don't score well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 87.53582 percent of its residents. This is many points less than the national average. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

The next category we looked at was nursing, is this facility's worst category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. When determining our nursing ratings, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This facility averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these scores pulled down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.