Rainbow Terrace Care Center

Even though we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable short-term care grade. We awarded it a B+ in this category, which was much better than its overall grade. Short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B+. Our nursing grade consists of a handful of subcategories, many of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a resident even once per day.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection rating where it received a lowly F. This generally means we found some red flags on its inspections. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We recommend you pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we want to point out that this nursing home received significant government fines in recent years of more than $50,000. This typically suggests that inspectors became fed up after several years of bad inspections.

The final area we analyzed is long-term care, where this facility was given an abysmal score in this category also. We gave it an F in this category, which is definitely very concerning. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.