Cambridge Health and Rehabilitation Center

To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we gave this facility an A for its inspection grade. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's next most favorable area is its long-term care score, where it was given a grade of C. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 99.35275 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. In determining our nursing ratings, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is far below average. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

Moving on to the fourth area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D in our short-term care category. This was the facility's weakest category rating. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last item we considered in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.3 percent of its residents returning home.