Schervier Nursing Care Center

This nursing home received a very strong long-term care rating. We gave this facility an A- in this category, which helped out its overall score. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 96.5865 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Inspections is another category where this facility excelled. We gave this nursing home an A- for our inspections category. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Next we looked at nursing grades, where this nursing home received an F, which is a rock bottom grade. This area was definitely not a strength for this facility. Our nursing rating includes many datapoints, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Moving on to our final category, this facility did not fare well. With a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this was this nursing home's worst grade. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.