Governors Creek Health and Rehabilitation

This facility's overall score was propped up by the fact that it has earned favorable inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in this category, with a B+. This is a much better score than the facility's overall score. Inspection ratings are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home also received a positive grade in our long-term care category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.72131 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to avoid negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. When determining a facility's nursing score, we look at the amount of time nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. 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. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

Turning to the final area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D for the area of short-term care. This is the facility's worst category score. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Considering its abysmal grade in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this facility offers far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.