The Center at Centerplace

One of the reasons this place is a strong facility is that it received a very impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections is its best category grade. In that category, we gave it a grade of A. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have deficiency data for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without having all of the deficiency data, it ended up being challenging to assess it in the inspections category.

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A. Our nursing score is primarily associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home was given impressive grades in the category of short-term care also. Indeed, it received one of our strongest grades in that category with a area of A-. Our short-term care scores are probably more critical for individuals in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning to our next area, we gave this nursing home a D for our long-term care category. This was the facility's least impressive category rating. However, you should not over-emphasize a single bad area. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes offer. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 90.47619 percent of its residents. This is significantly below what we expected. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.