Camden Health and Rehabilitation

The main reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of A-. This is a much better score than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home also was given a strong grade in our short-term care category. We awarded this facility a better than average grade of B+ in that area. Our short-term care grades are probably most critical for those requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of D. In determining our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This particular place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This number is significantly below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The last category we assessed is long-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in this area. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.73545 percent of its residents, which is more than most nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.