Mcloud Nursing Center

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection grades are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our short-term care score and that actually ended up being its second most favorable score. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. As you might expect, we learned that this place provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. When determining our nursing scores, we analyze both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we rated is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.