Capital Health and Rehabilitation Center

We would like to point out that this nursing home's nursing rating exceeded its overall grade. This nursing home earned a B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. There are a host of subcategories included in this category. Most of the factors relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving patients even once per day.

This nursing home actually earned a solid government inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better scores in that category with a B-. We were surprised this nursing home earned multiple category grades of this caliber. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This facility was awarded its third best category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is often a solid assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The last area we graded was long-term care. This facility was given a grade of C in this area. Our long-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home gave the vaccine to only 87.815125 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.