Cambridge Place Group

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also performed favorably in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of A-. Very few nursing homes fared more favorably in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.68652 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this facility an impressive grade of D. In computing a facility's nursing score, we look at the number of hours nurses are with patients as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Switching gears to the last area, this nursing home really did not fare very well. With a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is its worst category grade. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 3.2 percent of its residents returning home.