Power County Nursing Home

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.48485 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning the page to our third category, this nursing home received a favorable short-term care score. In that area, we gave this facility a A-. Short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Moving on our last category, inspections proved to be this nursing home's worst area. It earned a C in this area. Inspection grades relate to a nursing home's inspection reports. Inspection ratings are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This nursing home had 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent danger to patient safety or health. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.