The Caring Place

Although we didn't give this facility a good overall grade, we actually gave it a strong grade in the area of inspections, where it received a B. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

One of this facility's higher category scores came in the category of long-term care. This wound up being its second most respectable category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our long-term care scores are more critical for patients requiring more conventional assistance related to personal care. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We discovered that this facility administered the vaccine to just 79.45737 percent of its patients, which is several points lower than we expected. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facilities next best area is short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

The last area we scored is nursing, which turned out to be a weak spot for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of just D for nursing. Our nursing grade weighs many subcategories, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This particular place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these data points to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.