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Although we did not rate this facility well overall, we would like to point out its decent government inspection reports in recent years. We gave it a relatively respectable score of B- in that area. Inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. 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's second most favorable area turned out to be short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B-. In crafting our short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

We also awarded this nursing home a decent grade in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is more than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Our final category is nursing, in which we awarded this nursing home a C in this category. There are a host of factors included in this area. Many of these criteria reflect staffing levels. This place averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is well below average. Finally, while this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared well in this statistic.