Governors Center

This facility earned an elite long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it an A- in this category, which really boosted its overall grade. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 86.524826 percent of its residents. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We also awarded this facility a solid grade in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. Our short-term care grades are likely most critical for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Turning to our inspection category, it appears this facility has received respectable inspections in recent years as well. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next category we analyzed was nursing. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of C. Our nursing score looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a relatively low total compared with most facilities. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.