Meadows Health Care Center

We couldn't find anything positive to say about this facility. It received just a just D in the area of nursing. Unfortunately, this is its best grade. The nursing score weighs many datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

In our next category, we gave this facility an F in the area of long-term care. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility administered the vaccine to 98 percent of its patients, which is a very solid statistic. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Among this place's worst category grades was a lowly F for its inspection score. More often than not, this indicates we found some red flags on the facility's inspections. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This facility had 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

The final area we assessed was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this category, which is a rock bottom grade. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Considering its score in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this place was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.