Kabul Nursing Homes

One of the reasons this place is a quality facility is that it earned an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections is its best category grade. In this category, we gave it an A. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home truly excelled in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.38271 percent of its residents, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses are with patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we scored was short-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of C. Although this proved to be its worst category score, this is still not a poor grade. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.