Shenandoah Center

Although we did not give this nursing home a good overall score, we actually gave it a fairly strong grade in the area of long-term care, where it earned a grade of B. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 92.94118 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We actually gave this nursing home a very solid score in the area of inspections as well. We gave it a B- in this category. This is better than many nursing homes in this category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This nursing home's next most favorable area turned out to be short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Short-term care grades are commonly used to judge a facility's rehabilitation services To provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. The facility offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

The last category we assessed was nursing, in which this facility was given a very poor score here as well. It received an abysmal F for this area, which is definitely a major concern. Our nursing score includes many subcategories. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.