United Presbyterian Home

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of B- for inspections. This grade is better than the facility's overall grade. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B-. When calculating a facility's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses are seeing residents as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This place averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is a very low figure. Lastly, nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

The third area we looked at was short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The more important thing is determining what effect this had on quality of care. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

Our last area is long-term care, in which we gave this nursing home a B- in this category. In computing these long-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 96.875 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.