Logan Health Care Center - Conrad

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. Its inspection score was far better than its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of this nursing home's higher category scores was in the area of long-term care. This ended up being its second most respectable category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. Our long-term care grade is used to grade a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. Nursing scores are mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is a very low figure. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

Moving on to the next category, we awarded this facility a grade of D in the area of short-term care. This is the facility's weakest category grade. Our short-term care ratings are critical for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With its poor rating in this area, we weren't shocked to discover that this facility offers significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.