Health Care Center Lucy Corr

On top of having a decent overall score, we also would like to point out that this nursing home earned favorable health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in this category, with a B+. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Another one of this nursing home's better category grades came in the category of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B. It actually performed better than most facilities in this area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.61963 percent of its patients, which is more than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we graded was short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B- in this category. Our short-term care ratings are vital for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The final category we analyzed was nursing. Sadly, it received an F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is clearly a major disappointment. There are many criteria within this category. Many of the factors relate to 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. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.