Ketchikan Med Center New Horizons Transitional Care

Ketchikan Med Center New Horizons Transitional Care is a small hospital-based nursing home located in Ketchikan, Alaska. Featuring an overall rating of B+, this facility should work for most prospective residents. You could definitely do much worse than this facility. This place's impressive profile was highlighted by its nursing score, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

We also would like to point out that this facility excelled in our nursing category. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. When calculating our nursing grades, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This place provided 5.8 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is among the better figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We are really impressed by both of these statistics. In addition to providing impressive levels of care, this place was also above average in several of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

This nursing home also was given an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few nursing homes to receive several A+ category scores. Short-term care grades are typically used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. One reason for this place's strong grade in this category is it provides more care from registered nurses to its patients than the typical facility. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. It fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 54.8 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home earned a solid inspection report this year as well, with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that category with a score of B-. Inspection ratings are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This nursing home was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

The final category we looked at was nursing, proved to be this facility's worst category. We gave this facility a D in this category. This really was one of just a couple of weak points of a very solid report card. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. After assessing nursing hours and other staffing provided by this nursing home, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Based on its grade in this category, it is surprising to discover that this nursing home received respectable marks in both statistics. In fact, this facility vaccinated 98.611115 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which appears to be higher than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this place also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.67 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.