Republic Nursing & Rehab

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this nursing home performed even better in our inspections category which is associated with the facility's recent inspections. We gave it an A for this area, which is one of our highest grades. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this nursing home's other achievements is its dominant long-term care grade. It received one of our more impressive scores in that area, with a score of A-. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 75.42998 percent of its patients. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we rated is short-term care, where this facility received a C. Even though this turned out to be its weakest category score, this is nevertheless not the end of the world. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.