Sharon Care Center

This nursing home earned an elite short-term care rating. We gave this facility an A in this area, which really helped out its overall grade. In determining these short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Next we looked at this facility's inspection score This score is based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is a middle of the road score in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This place was hit with 9 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This indicates the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat 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 nursing home's weakest category was long-term care, which is the last area we assessed. It received a lowly F in this category. In spite of multiple decent grades in other areas, this grade is still disappointing so we would like to to draw your attention to it. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.