Uptown TLC Health Center

We simply couldn't find anything favorable to say about this facility. It received just a D in the category of inspections. Unfortunately, this ended up being its best grade. Our inspection ratings factor in many items found on the facility's inspection reports. When you find severe deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is typically the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This particular facility had 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we want to point out that this nursing home was assessed large government fines in recent years of more than $50,000. This generally suggests that government inspectors became fed up after several years of bad government inspections.

Unfortunately, this facility's second most respectable score was long-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this area, it still performed somewhat poorly. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 46.62069 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. There are many datapoints within this grade. Most of these criteria are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The last area we looked at was short-term care. This nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that area. Short-term care grades are crucial for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With a score in this range in this area, we were not stunned to find this facility was well below average in the two key staffing metrics we looked at. The nursing home offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 2.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.