Henry J Carter Skilled Nursing Facility

We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home earned near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Compounding its dominant achievements in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for its long-term care grade. For residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 91.97952 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is slightly below what we expected but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our more favorable grades in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B. With our short-term care score, we endeavor to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we looked at was nursing, where this nursing home was awarded a B-. Although this proved to be its worst category score, this is nevertheless not the end of the world. There are quite a few data points included in this category. Many of the factors are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a low total compared with most other facilities. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. While this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it did very well in this area. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents more often.