Meadows Health Care Center

Even though we graded this nursing home extremely poorly overall, it earned a better long-term care grade this year. We gave it a C in that area. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.6063 percent of its residents, which is better than the average nursing home. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home excelled in our nursing category, where it earned a grade of C. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. The nursing grade includes several components, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. According to its CMS data, this facility provided an average of 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which was above average. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these datapoints. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this statistic.

Sadly, this nursing home's third highest category was short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. Our short-term care grades are important for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Given its grade in this area, we were not surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 43.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.

In the last category of inspections, this facility really did not fare well. It received an F in our inspection category. For nursing homes with bad inspection grades, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular facility was hit with 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a threat to patient safety or health. 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.