Kaplan Healthcare Center

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an A+. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was given a strong long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a B+ in that area, which is one of our more favorable scores. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 93.78531 percent of its patients. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home averages just 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's weakest category is short-term care, which is the final area we looked at. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category. Despite multiple decent grades in other areas, this score is nevertheless of a concern so we would like to to point it out. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 34.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.