Skyview Center

Although we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it received a decent short-term care score this year. We gave it a C in that category, which was the closest thing to a bright spot we found for this nursing home. In crafting these short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on quality of care. The final metric we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We were also pleasantly surprised to learn that this facility received a reasonably solid long-term care rating in our assessment. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. Long-term care grades are vital for people in need of non-healthcare services such as personal care. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 94.68438 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection grades where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on the inspection reports. When a facility has this bad of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

Switching gears to the last area, this nursing home didn't perform well here either. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is really as terrible as it gets. Our nursing grade assesses a handful of factors, but the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these data points to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.