ElderGrade

Staffing at Shaire Nursing Center

Hours of nursing care each resident receives per day, from payroll data submitted to CMS — not from figures the facility chose to publish. The marker on each bar is the national average.

Hours per resident per day

Total nurse staffing 4.55 hrs
National average 3.86 hrs Better than average
Certified nurse aide (CNA) hours 2.59 hrs
National average 2.32 hrs Better than average

Aides do the hands-on work — bathing, dressing, toileting, transfers, feeding.

Licensed practical nurse (LPN) hours 1.21 hrs
Registered nurse (RN) hours 0.76 hrs
National average 0.69 hrs Better than average

RNs are the licence level most likely to catch a resident deteriorating.

Physical therapist hours 0.02 hrs

The weekend shift

Residents are no less frail on a Saturday. This is also the shift most families visit — so it is often the thinnest one they see.

Weekday total nurse hours 4.55 hrs
Weekend total nurse hours 3.74 hrs
National average 3.42 hrs Better than average
Weekend RN hours 0.36 hrs
National average 0.48 hrs Below average

Staffing falls 18% at weekends compared with weekdays. That is a modest change, which suggests weekend cover is genuinely staffed.

Adjusted for how sick the residents are

A home caring for very frail residents needs more nursing time than one caring for largely independent residents. CMS publishes an expected level based on this home's actual resident mix.

Expected hours for this resident mix 3.42 hrs
Case-mix adjusted actual hours 5.10 hrs

This home staffs at 133% of what its resident mix would be expected to need.

Staff turnover

Continuity is care. A caregiver who has worked with someone for a year knows when they are not themselves.

Nursing staff turnover 34.40%
National average 45.80% Better than average
Registered nurse turnover 12.50%
National average 42.90% Better than average

0 administrators left this home in the reporting period. Repeated turnover in the top job usually means the problems below it are not being fixed.