New Dawn Health Care Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection ratings are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our short-term care category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is often a fair assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. The nursing category assesses many subcategories, many of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below the national average. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

The next category we assessed is long-term care, proved to be this facility's worst category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility gave the vaccine to a relatively low 70.466324 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.