Monroe County Care Center

Part of the reason this proved to be a decent nursing home is it earned a very favorable nursing rating. In fact, its nursing score ended up being its best category. In that area, we gave this facility a B. Our nursing score is based on a number of datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the category of short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B. It actually fared better than most nursing homes in this category. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

We would also like to draw your attention to this facility's strong inspection score. This facility earned a B in this category, which is one of our better grades. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Our last category is long-term care, in which we gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this category. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated just 84.259254 percent of its patients for pneumonia. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.