Apple Rehab Rocky Hill

One of the reasons this proved to be a quality facility is it received a very impressive short-term care grade. In fact, short-term care turned out to be its best category. In that category, we awarded this facility an A. Our short-term care grade is generally used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A. Nursing ratings are primarily tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The third area we analyzed is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of C in this category. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 91.89189 percent of its residents. This is slightly lower than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In our last category, inspections proved to be this nursing home's worst grade. It earned a grade of C in this category. Inspection grades relate to a facility's inspections. We would argue that one of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home had 2 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This means this facility dodged the more significant categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.