Wolf Creek Care Center

To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this facility an A- for its inspection grade. This score is far more impressive than its overall grade. Our inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades was in the category of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It actually outpaced most facilities in this category. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

We gave this facility just a D for our long-term care score. This is well below average in this category. For residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 95.364235 percent of its residents, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The last area we graded is nursing. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in our nursing category, rendering this the facility's least impressive area. Our nursing category analyzes quite a few components, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found this place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric.