Buckeye Forest Madeira

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's next highest score was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed relatively poorly. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated only 89.75903 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

The third area we graded is short-term care. This nursing home's received a poor short-term care grade where it was given an F. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Based on its weak rating in this area, we were not stunned to find this place offers significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

The last category we assessed is nursing. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in that category. In calculating our nursing grades, we look at both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This place was above average in two of the major areas we focus on, with solid marks for avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These data points are usually reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided.