The Anderson

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest scores in this category with an A-. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Additionally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was given favorable long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our higher grades in this category, with a grade of B. This proved to be the facility's second strongest grade. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 96.59864 percent of its residents. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The third most favorable category we gave this nursing home in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a C. In our short-term care score, we try to create a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. It doesn't look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility's weakest category is nursing, which is the last category we assessed. In this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of just D. There are quite a few data points included in this category. Most of the criteria reflect nurse staffing. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. In addition to its weak nursing hours, this facility earned suboptimal marks in many of the quality-based measures we considered in computing our nursing grades. We found that a higher percentage of this place's residents experienced falls which led to serious injury. We believe that many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a terrible nursing rating.