Union House Nursing Home

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. Inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find deficiency data for this facility. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

This nursing home also didn't perform poorly in the category of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a C for that category, which turned out to be another one of its more favorable scores. In our long-term care category, we focus more on the sheer quantity of services offered by a facility, as well as a few qualitative measures. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 97.35099 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Sadly, this nursing home's third highest score was short-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be most critical for folks in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. With its grade in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

The last category we rated is nursing. This facility was given a poor grade of F in this category. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.