Myrtle Point Care Center

On top of earning a great overall grade, this facility really excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A. Few nursing homes did better in this category. There are many subcategories within this category. Many of these factors reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also fared well in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best grades. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Unfortunately, this facility's third best category was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the nursing home didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 92.753624 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

Moving on our last category of inspections, this nursing home received an F in this area. This score was detrimental to this nursing home's overall grade. When a facility has this bad of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This nursing home was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this place received large government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This typically suggests that a poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.