Schofield Residence

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. This score is far better than the facility's overall score. Inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, we also would like to point out that this nursing home received impressive long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our better grades in this category, with a B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second highest score. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.324326 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The third category we graded is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a decent grade of C. Short-term care grades are critical for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 5.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The last category we graded was nursing, which was this facility's worst area. Sadly, it received an F for this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This number is significantly below average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These statistics pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.