Milan Health Care Center

While this facility's overall score was as bad as it gets, it actually fared pretty well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its long-term care grade. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 70.38043 percent of its residents. This is several points less than what we expected. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

The third category we looked at was short-term care. This facility's was given a poor short-term care grade where it was given a lowly F. Our short-term care ratings are important for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this place was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Moving on to our fourth category, this nursing home did not fare well in this area either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is about as bad as it gets. Our nursing grade assesses several components, but the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This place also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of patients suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this area.