Cambridge Place

This facility's best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B+. It actually outperformed most facilities in this category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving patients more often.

In addition, we also wanted to point out that this facility was given impressive long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of B. This turned out to be the facility's second best score. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 92.70073 percent of its residents. This is somewhat below what we expected but still a respectable percentage. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's inspection grade was yet another category grade that was superior to the facility's overall grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

The next category we looked at was short-term care. We awarded it a C in that category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this area. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 4.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.