Regent Care at Medical Center

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of this nursing home's more favorable category scores came in the category of long-term care. This wound up being its second best category. In that area, we awarded this facility a B-. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.570816 percent of its patients, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We awarded this facility just a D for our short-term care score. This is not a score to write home about. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Considering its score in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care score.

The last area we rated is nursing, which was this facility's least impressive area. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is clearly very disappointing. Our nursing rating includes many subcategories. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is quite a bit below the national average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These statistics hurt this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.