Jackie Withrow Hospital

This facility excelled in our long-term care category, with an A in this area. This really propped up its overall grade quite a bit. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.579834 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Inspections is another area where this nursing home excelled. We awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Inspection grades are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspections. Facilities that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing rating. We gave this facility an impressive grade of D. The nursing score assesses quite a few factors, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The last area we analyzed is short-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's worst category. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is clearly a major disappointment. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most important for folks requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. We found that this place was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we considered. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.