Care One at Moorestown

To pair with its strong overall score, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Adding to its profile, this nursing home also earned a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing grades are tied to nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home 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 state 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 having a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.

The last category we looked at was long-term care. This facility was awarded an above average long-term care rating in our assessment, with a C. While this was not quite as dominant as many of its other grades, this is nevertheless an acceptable rating in this area. With our long-term care grade, we look at the amount of care provided by a facility, as well as some qualitative measures. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted vaccination data. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.