Winning Wheels

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This tells you inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to present an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

Surprisingly, we awarded this facility a grade of C for our short-term care grade, which really isn't a bad grade. In our short-term care rating, we strive to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Our nursing rating is based on several subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we assessed is long-term care. This facility was given an abysmal grade of F in this area. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 73.06502 percent of its residents. This is multiple points less than the national average. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.