Monroe Care Center

While we were not high on this nursing home's overall grade, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A-. These inspection ratings 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 place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not 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 necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's second most favorable category ended up being long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B-. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 98.47328 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Additionally, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this facility provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

Switching gears to our next category, this nursing home did not fare well here either. With a poor grade of F in nursing, this is about as terrible as it gets. Our nursing grade includes a handful of factors, however, the main consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility averaged a meager 0 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This facility was above average in two of the major metrics we focus on, with good marks for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These data points are usually reliable measures of the quality of nursing care available.