Rosebud Health Care Center

Although we did not rate this facility well overall, we want to point out its decent health inspection reports in recent years. We awarded it a relatively respectable score of B- in this area. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. Our nursing grade is primarily based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, nursing scores also consider quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

This facilities next best area was short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this area. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. It offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

Switching gears to the last area, this facility received a B- for long-term care, which we consider to be a decent score. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. This nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.