Latta Road Nursing Home East

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A+. This is a much better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This facility's second most favorable category turned out to be its short-term care grade, where it was awarded a B-. Short-term care grades are critical for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This place averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

Our final category is long-term care, where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C in that category. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 87.39496 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly lower than the national average. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.