Regency Extended Care Center

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better scores in that area, with an A. This is a much better score than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Building on this nursing home's list of strengths, it also earned an excellent nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of B- in this category. In computing a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are caring for patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

This facilities third most favorable area is long-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is basically a slightly below average score in this category. Our long-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's amount of nursing care. This includes a vast range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this facility provided the vaccine to just 88.47087 percent of its residents, which is not a very encouraging sign. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to our next area, we awarded this facility a grade of D for the area of short-term care. This is the nursing home's least impressive category score. In our short-term care assessment, we try to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Given its score in this category, we were not surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.