Cadia Rehabilitation Capitol
1225 Walker Road, Dover DE 19904 · (302) 734-1199 · 93.58% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Cadia Rehabilitation Capitol is an average-sized facility in Dover, Delaware. Sporting an overall grade of B+, this nursing home should work for most prospective patients. In fact, this facility is one of the top 50 nursing homes in Delaware. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its nursing score. Nursing grades are discussed in the next section
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. In computing a facility's nursing grade, we look at the amount of time nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any facility the country when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as good measures of the caliber of nursing care provided.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility was given high scores in the category of short-term care as well. As a result, we awarded it one of our most favorable grades in that area with a area of A. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. This place outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation with 58.8 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also received top notch government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with an impressive grade of B+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we looked at was long-term care. We awarded this facility an acceptable grade in this area, with a C. Even though this wasn't as strong as a few of its other scores, it is still not a poor grade. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. One of the factors we considered in addition to this facility's quality nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.7416 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cadia Rehabilitation Capitol Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better