Providence Transitional Care Center

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received high marks in the area of short-term care as well. It received our highest grade in that category with a score of A+. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 7.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.7 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 often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also wanted to point out this facility's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

The last area we scored was nursing, proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in this category. This really is one of the couple of weak links on a very solid profile. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category likely don't provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities provide. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 54.954952 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be several points lower than what we expected. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best feature in this category.