Gracelen Terrace Nf

While we graded this nursing home very poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing rating this year. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides only 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

We were also stunned to find that this nursing home received a reasonably solid short-term care score this year. We gave it a B- in this category. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Turning to the category of long-term care, this nursing home received a grade of just D in that category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 91.46342 percent of its patients, which is slightly lower than we were hoping for. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

In the final category of inspections, this facility fared very poorly. It received an F in our inspection category. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This nursing home was assessed a deficiency by government inspectors. We were relieved to find that it was not in one of the categories that suggest that it posed a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.