Nokomis Rehab & Health Care Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection scores are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of short-term care. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Based on its score in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular facility averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This statistic is significantly below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The last area we rated was long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal score. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities provide. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home administered the vaccine to a relatively low 88.073395 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.