Macgregor Downs Health and Rehabilitation

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We were not able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without deficiency data for this facility, it ended up being a challenge to evaluate it in terms of this category.

We also gave this facility a strong grade in short-term care. This facility received a B+ in this area, which is one of our more impressive grades. Short-term care grades are generally used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care, which was this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that area. Naturally, this grade pulled down the facility's overall grade a bit. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 47.67442 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.