The Health Center at Standifer Place

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than its overall score. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's next best area is its long-term care grade, where it was given a B-. Long-term care scores are meaningful for residents requiring personal care. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 93.492584 percent of its residents, which is slightly below what we expected. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 2 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than most nursing homes due to it having more complex patients.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. There are a number of datapoints within this area. Many of the factors relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also considered some quality-based statistics in this category. Although this facility did not rank highly in terms of nursing hours, it fared much better in some of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, this place fared better than average. This is usually a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care.

The next category we looked at was short-term care, which is this facility's weakest category. It received a lowly F for this area, which is obviously a major concern. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this nursing home offers substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical nursing home. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 39.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care score.