Accolade Healthcare of Danville

Neither this nursing home's overall grade nor its category grades gave us many positives to write about. Its best category was inspections, but even here it received a grade of just D. This is still a very poor score. Our inspection grades factor in many items on the facility's inspection reports. If you see severe deficiencies on the reports, this is generally the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This facility had 8 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we would like to point out that this facility was assessed large government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This generally signifies that a nursing home's bad performance spanned several years.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. When determining our nursing grades, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This particular place averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This statistic is significantly below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next category we looked at is short-term care. This facility's received a poor short-term care grade where it was given an F. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more critical for residents requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

The final area we scored was long-term care. This nursing home was given an abysmal grade of F in that area. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our measures relating to patient care. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this nursing home vaccinated just 76.87296 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.