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 receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 73.30317 percent of its residents, which is slightly lower than we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we graded was short-term care. In this area, where we gave this nursing home an F, which was worse than most of its other category grades. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The next area we assessed is nursing. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area, which is a rock bottom grade. This is obviously a major disappointment. Our nursing rating includes a handful of factors, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these data points to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.