Senior Care Health and Rehabilitation Center - Dal

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category, which is one of our better scores. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place had 2 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This means that inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This facility also didn't rate poorly in the category of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which turned out to be another one of its higher scores. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. We assessed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. This particular facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This statistic is significantly below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we graded is long-term care. This facility received a very poor grade of F in this category. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to just 75.15528 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.