Knopp Healthcare

While this nursing home's overall grade was terrible, it actually performed well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid facilities with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in 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. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its long-term care score, which was actually one of its more favorable category scores. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home gave the vaccine to only 45.652172 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Turning to the category of short-term care, this nursing home received just a D in that category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is typically a reliable assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Considering its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The last category we looked at was nursing, in which this nursing home received a rock bottom score here also. It received an F for this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. Our nursing rating assesses quite a few data points, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. To pair with its low total nursing hours per patient, this facility had really poor scores in several of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents experiencing falls which led to major injury. This nursing home was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is alarming in light of the fact that so many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of receiving a poor nursing grade.