The Center at Centerplace

One of the reasons this ended up being a strong nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection score. Inspections is its best category. In that area, we gave it an A. 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. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We wish we had more information about this facility. Without having deficiency data, it is challenging to fully evaluate this nursing home in this area.

This nursing home truly excelled in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Not many facilities performed more favorably in this area. Our short-term care grades are considered to be more meaningful for individuals requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing score considers several factors. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving residents more frequently.

Moving on to our last category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D in our long-term care category. This was the facility's least impressive category score. However, we wouldn't over-emphasize a single weak area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, we were not able to find this facility's vaccination rates. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.