Life Care Center of Inverrary

On top of being a strong facility overall, it also received A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually perfect. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home also received a very impressive short-term care score. This actually is this facility's second strongest category score. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A-. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most meaningful for patients needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we looked at was long-term care, where this facility was given a B. Believe it or not, this turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive area. A facility is doing something right when it's worst score still beats out most nursing homes. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 96.892654 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.