Cambridge Care Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Without having the deficiency data for this facility, it is difficult to fully evaluate it in terms of this category.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Nursing grades are mostly based on a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also received a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this category. Our short-term care ratings are presumably most critical for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next category we rated is long-term care. We gave this facility a solid score in this area, with a grade of B-. Although this isn't on par with some of this facility's other scores, it is still not a terrible score. In determining our long-term care scores, we look at the personal care offered to a facility's patients. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 99.248116 percent of its patients. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.