Alden Meadow Park

While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid facilities that have too many deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place averages just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is well below average. Finally, although this place got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this area.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's next best score was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 97.75281 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The next area we graded is short-term care, which ended up being a low point for this facility. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D for short-term care. Our short-term care scores are thought to be more meaningful for individuals needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. With a grade this poor for this category, we weren't shocked to find that this place was well below average in many staffing figures we looked at. It offered far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.4 percent of its residents returning home.