Skilled Caring Center of Memorial Hospital

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home also earned an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received an A+ short-term care grade, making it one of the few facilities to be awarded more than one A+ category grades. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. This facility is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. In fact, it supplied roughly 1.5 times as many physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Indiana in this area with 78.7 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Moving on our third area, we awarded this facility a score of A for its long-term care grade. This is a very impressive score. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. 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 a remarkably low number.

Moving on to the fourth area, this nursing home was given a high-end nursing rating. In fact, we awarded it an A- in that category, giving this facility straight A's. Our nursing category analyzes several subcategories, many of which are based on nursing hours. This facility provided 8.1 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This was one of the higher totals we found. In addition, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. In addition to providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home in the nation when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as good measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided.