Milton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Although we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a relatively impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that category with a B. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid facilities with too many deficiencies flagged. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem 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.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care grade. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated only 87.34793 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a rock-bottom F in the category of short-term care. In calculating these short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Considering its score in this category, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 3.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this facility didn't fare very well in this category either. With a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is about as bad as it gets. Our nursing grade looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.