Myrtle Point Care Center

In addition to earning a strong overall grade, this facility performed well in our nursing category. We awarded it an A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. The nursing score includes a number of factors. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a resident more often.

Adding to this facility's list of accomplishments, it also received a high-end short-term care score. We gave them an elite grade of A- in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is more often than not a useful assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home's third best category ended up being long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. Our long-term care grade is often used to gauge a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 91.52542 percent of its residents, which is slightly less than we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Finally, turning to inspections, we gave this facility a C. Our inspection score is based on the nursing home's inspections. While this is not a bad grade, it is this facility's weakest link. Our inspection grades are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This place was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent danger to patient health or safety. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.