The Suites at Holly Creek Care Center

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a positive long-term care score. As a matter of fact, we awarded them a grade of B+ in that area, which is one of our better. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 94.91525 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility received its next highest category grade in the category of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a B- in this category, which is a respectable grade. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

This nursing home's weakest area is nursing, which is the last category we analyzed. Sadly, it received an F in this area. Despite a few respectable scores in other areas, this grade is nevertheless of a concern so we would like to to draw your attention to it. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses spend with patients as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. With only 0 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this place's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these data points to be measures of the quality of nursing care.