Julia Pound Care Center

To pair with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this facility's other accomplishments is its superb long-term care grade. It received one of our more impressive grades in that category, with a grade of A-. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 94.33962 percent of its patients, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. In calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are seeing residents as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the final category, we awarded this nursing home a D in our short-term care category. This was the nursing home's least impressive category rating. Naturally, this score pulled down the facility's overall grade a bit. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.