Larkin Chase Center

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, we gave it one of our highest scores in that area with an A. Inspection scores are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home also was given a top-shelf short-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being its second most impressive category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Nursing ratings are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a grade of B-. This actually turned out to be this facility's worst category. This is nevertheless not a major area of concern. In the area of long-term care, we analyze the quantity of care offered by a nursing home, rather than more medically-intensive services. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information about vaccinations. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.