Meadowbrook Care Center

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our long-term care category. We gave this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in that area. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.87669 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 2.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had some more complex patients.

This facilities third best area is short-term care. We gave it a C in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road score in this category. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most critical for folks in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, we found that this nursing home provided respectable levels of physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 50.7 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most nursing homes.

The last category we assessed is nursing. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in our nursing category, rendering this the facility's weakest area. Our nursing grade weighs many subcategories, however, the paramount one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. In addition to receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found this facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.