Todd-Dickey Nursing and Rehabilitation

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 95.28302 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next highest category we awarded this facility in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-. With our short-term care rating, we seek to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Moving on to our next category, this nursing home received a grade of C in nursing, which is a decent grade. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this area. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving patients more frequently.