Midway Nursing Home

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that area, which is one of our best scores. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's second highest area came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a C. Our long-term care grade is commonly used to judge a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to just 76.89769 percent of its residents. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care rating. This is not a score to write home about. Short-term care grades are typically employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Given its abysmal score in this area, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home offers substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The next category we scored is nursing, where this nursing home received an abysmal grade in this area also. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is definitely somewhat alarming. Nursing scores are primarily tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is well below average. In addition to receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found this place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really dragged down this facility's nursing grade significantly.