Medicalodges Frontenac

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this nursing home performed well in our nursing category. We awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. The nursing score includes a host of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving patients at least once a day.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our more positive grades in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grades are presumably most meaningful for people requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The final area we graded was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a solid grade in that category, with a grade of B-. Even though this was not as high as several of this nursing home's other grades, it is still not a bad grade. With our long-term care rating, we weigh the sheer quantity of services offered by a nursing home, along with some qualitative statistics. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 57.53425 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be several points below what we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.