Ranger Care Center

The main reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of A-. This is a much better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home received its third highest category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this facility a C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next category we looked at was nursing, which is this facility's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this category. Unfortunately, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. There are a host of subcategories within this grade. Most of these subcategories reflect nurse staffing. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.