Providence Care Center

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its excellent government inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection grades are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility also received a positive short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Our short-term care scores are arguably more meaningful for residents needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing rating weighs a handful of subcategories, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a low total compared with most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

This nursing home's worst area is long-term care, which is the last category we looked at. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of just D. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 97.151 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.