Latta Road Nursing Home West

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our long-term care grade. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.18033 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home received its next highest category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is frequently a meaningful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.

The final area we scored was nursing, where this nursing home was awarded a C. While this wound up being its weakest category score, this is still not a bad grade. Our nursing grade includes many factors. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is far below average. Finally, we also considered some quality-based metrics in this category. Although this facility didn't rank highly in terms of its nursing hours, it fared much better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than average. This is generally a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided with better nursing care.