Life Care Center of Inverrary

On top of earning a great overall score, this nursing home also received an excellent short-term care grade, with an impressive grade of A. Our short-term care grades are arguably more important for folks needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspections. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as 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. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. The nursing rating includes a handful of datapoints, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning residents even once per day.

Moving on to the next category, this nursing home was awarded an excellent long-term care grade. Although this isn't quite as good as several of its other grades, this is nevertheless one of the better scores a facility can receive. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 98.870056 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.