Imperial Care Center

Although this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it didn't perform as badly in nursing. We gave it a grade of B- for this area. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this area. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving patients even once per day.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a B- for its long-term care rating, which isn't a bad grade. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility gave the vaccine to 97.02517 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable datapoint. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to the category of short-term care, this facility received just a D in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is more often than not a meaningful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 3.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Looking to our last category of inspections, we gave this facility a just D, which is a relatively poor grade. Our inspection rating is based on the facility's inspection reports. Since this information is collected by independent government inspectors, we place a great deal of weight on it in our overall grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. We recommend you pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.