Midlothian Healthcare Center

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning residents more often.

This nursing home fared well in the category of long-term care as well. For this reason, we gave it a grade of A- for that category, which turns out to be one of our best scores. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.66443 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we analyzed is this facility's weakest category. However, even in its worst category we still awarded it a decent grade of C for short-term care. In calculating our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. We weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.