Tekoa Care Center

Although we didn't give this facility a good overall score, we actually gave it a relatively strong grade in the area of inspections, where it received a B. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of this nursing home's better category grades was in the area of short-term care. This proved to be its second most favorable category. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is often a solid assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what effect this had on quality of care. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

The last area we scored is long-term care. This nursing home received a poor grade of F in this area. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 95.2381 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.