Camden Postacute Care

On top of having a decent overall score, we also wanted to point out that this facility received favorable nursing marks this year. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B+. This proved to be the facility's top grade. Nursing grades are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also received favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a B. This is better than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This facilities next most favorable category is short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this category. Our short-term care grade is typically used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services To have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 3.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The final area we looked at is long-term care, turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. This really is one of just a few weak links in a strong report card. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.