Caribou Rehab and Nursing Center
10 Bernadette St, Caribou ME 04736 · (207) 498-3102 · 89.41% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Caribou Rehab and Nursing Center is a small nursing home located in Caribou, Maine. This turns out to be an A+ facility, which is the very best grade. We were so impressed with this facility that we rated it as one of the top five facilities in Maine. This also appears to be a very consistent facility with consistent ratings in each of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 68 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing grade is mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This place provides an incredible 6.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any facility in the country when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on our third area, this top notch nursing home also fared very well in the area of short-term care. In this category, it received a A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. This facility provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is definitely a great sign. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Maine in this area with 61 percent of its patients returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we looked at is long-term care, where this facility received a grade of A-. This rounded out a very strong report card. Not many facilities earned an A- or better in every category. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. On top of providing very favorable levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.01478 percent of its patients. This statistic is also much better than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.28 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Caribou Rehab and Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have had falls which resulted in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry argue that the ability to move around is important for patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better