Kerens Care Center

To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its inspection grade. This score is far better than the facility's overall rating. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This facility also excelled in nursing, where it earned an B+. Few places performed better in this area. Our nursing grade is largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also received a positive short-term care score. Indeed, we gave them a grade of B in that category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Short-term care grades are often used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility's weakest category was long-term care, which is the final category we assessed. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area. Despite several solid scores in other categories, this grade is nevertheless concerning so we would like to to draw your attention to it. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 97.89474 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.