Myers Nursing & Convalescent Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our long-term care rating. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 99.61686 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home didn't perform horribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category. Other aspects of its profile were the source of this facility's abysmal overall grade. Our inspection scores are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories G through L. This tells you inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we want to note that this place has been assessed government fines in recent years. Fortunately these were not on the high end as government fines go. Nevertheless, this is still not what you want to find.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Our nursing grade is based on several subcategories. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. With only 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this facility's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next category we scored was short-term care. We gave it an F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel score. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. With its score in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Finally, we considered the number of residents who returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.