Jameson Care Center

On top of receiving an elite overall score, this nursing home earned an A+ inspection score. This score is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A. In computing our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Roughly one-fourth of these hours were provided by registered nurses, which are among the most skilled levels of nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing care. We weight these hours performed by these types of nurses more in determining our nursing scores. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also performed well in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Not many nursing homes received a better grade in this area. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be most meaningful for patients needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. It performed better than most facilities in this area with 55.3 percent of its residents returning home.

In the last category we graded, this facility was awarded a very favorable grade of A- in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility completed a straight A report card. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.37107 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.27 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.