Jan Frances Care Center

This place's grades are horrible across the board. In particular, we want to draw your attention to its inspection grade where it received an F. This isn't a good sign for its government inspection reports. For facilities that received this poor of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility had 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

We also wanted to note this nursing home's abysmal long-term care score where it was given a lowly F. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category may not provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes offer. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this facility vaccinated only 66.666664 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. This nursing home's was given a rock-bottom short-term care score where it was given a lowly F. Our short-term care grade is typically used to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. With a grade in this range in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this place was well below average in multiple staffing figures we focus on. The facility provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.

The next area we rated is nursing, where this facility received a rock bottom score in this area as well. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. There are numerous criteria within this category. Many of the data points relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor marks in the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These statistics pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.