Share Medical Center

Although we did not rate this facility well overall, we want to point out its decent grade of B- in the category of nursing. The nursing rating assesses several components, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below the national average. Lastly, while this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this subcategory.

One of this facility's more respectable category scores came in the area of short-term care. This turned out to be its second most favorable category. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are often employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The real question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The third best area we awarded this facility in any area came in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a B-. With our long-term care rating, we weigh the quantity of care provided by a nursing home, along with a handful of quality measures. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we looked at was inspections. This ended up being this nursing home's weakest link. We gave it a D in this area. Since this data is collected by independent government inspectors, we weight it heavily in our assessment. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. We suggest you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility had 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to patient health or safety. 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.