Meeker Nursing Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this place an A- for the area of inspections. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.

Among its many impressive scores, this nursing home earned an excellent nursing score. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that category. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The third category we assessed was short-term care. This facility was given an above average short-term care score, with a B in this category. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is generally a solid measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final category we assessed is long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a C. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. After we finished assessing the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated just 89.62963 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.