Indiana Masonic Home Health Center

Indiana Masonic Home Health Center is a nursing home located in Franklin, Indiana, which has 31,036 people. This nursing home was given a very respectable overall grade of B+, resulting in it being one of the three highest graded facilities in the city. This place definitely has plenty of good features. This place also received very consistent ratings in each of our categories. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Our inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

We also awarded this facility a grade of A- for our short-term care grade. Short-term care grades are important for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Indiana in this area with 60.6 percent of its patients returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

The next area we graded is long-term care. This nursing home received an impressive long-term care score, with a grade of B+ in the category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 95.959595 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. While it had 2.35 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was middle of the road due to it having some more complicated patients.

Moving on to the next area, this facility was given an excellent nursing score. This facility didn't prove to have any identifiable weaknesses. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. With 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average. This is usually a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.