Cambridge Ltc Partners

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. Inspection grades are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home was given its next most favorable category score in the category of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in this area, which is an acceptable grade. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. The nursing grade features a host of factors. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this metric.

The last area we assessed was short-term care. We awarded it a C in that area. This is a fair grade in this category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.