Kenedy Health & Rehabilitation

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

One of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the category of short-term care. This wound up being its second best category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. We weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next best area we gave this nursing home in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a C. In determining our long-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's personal care services. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an above average figure. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we analyzed is nursing, which proved to be this facility's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. Sadly, this score pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.