Jordan Creek Nursing & Rehab

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our more favorable scores. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.4359 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's third most favorable area was short-term care. We awarded it a B- in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average score in this category. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It performed much better in this metric. In fact, we found it was above average in this metric with 53.8 percent of its patients returning home.

This nursing home's least impressive area was nursing, which is the final area we looked at. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a D. The nursing score analyzes several subcategories, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This place averaged just 3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics hurt this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.