McCormick Post Acute

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category typically have few of these severe deficiencies. It does not look like we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many impressive grades, this facility received a top-shelf long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that area. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.71671 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Our nursing grade analyzes several subcategories, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we graded was short-term care. This facility was awarded a strong nursing grade in our assessment, with a B. Although this was not quite as good as some of its other grades, this is nevertheless one of the more favorable scores for this area. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.