Gideon Care Center

To go along with its relatively modest overall score, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. This grade is far better than its overall rating. Inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a score of A for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 97.10744 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility received an F in the area of short-term care. Sadly, this is about as bad as it gets in this area. Short-term care grades are generally employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home's least impressive area is nursing, which is the final area we scored. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category. Even with several respectable grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless concerning so we wanted to make sure you are aware. Nursing grades are mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. On top of its below average nursing hours, this facility also received poor scores in many of the quality-based metrics we considered in determining our nursing ratings. We found that more of this place's patients suffered falls leading to major injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this place receiving a poor nursing rating.