Ratliff Care Center

In addition to receiving a strong overall rating, this facility performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A for this category, which is one of our best grades. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home received high scores in the category of long-term care as well. Consequently, it received one of our strongest grades in that category with a area of A-. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.8042 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing rating is mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we looked at was short-term care, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is certainly somewhat concerning. In determining these short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. In this place's case, we found that it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.6 percent of its residents returning home.