Carrington Place at Botetourt Commons

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better grades in that area, with an A. This is a much better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

We also gave this nursing home a favorable score in long-term care. This facility received a B in this category, which turns out to be one of our higher grades. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.17742 percent of its residents, which is more than the average nursing home. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Our nursing category analyzes many datapoints, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat alarming figure as it is well below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

This nursing home's worst category was short-term care, which is the final category we assessed. In this category, we gave this nursing home a D. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. With a score of this caliber for this category, we weren't stunned to learn that this place was well below average in the two key staffing figures we looked at. The facility offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this facility's short-term care score.