The Transitional Care Center of Owensboro

To go along with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this facility an A+ for the area of inspections. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we were not able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strong feature for this nursing home is that it was given a very positive long-term care score. Indeed, this proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a B+. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. We didn't have any problems with this nursing home's performance in this area.

This facility also was given a strong short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most meaningful for patients needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home's worst area is nursing, which is the final category we assessed. We gave it a lowly F in this category. Even with a few favorable grades in other categories, this grade is still a bit of a concern so we would like to to draw your attention to it. Nursing grades are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided just 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing grades. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.