Carrington Place at Rural Retreat

Carrington Place at Rural Retreat is an average-sized nursing home located in Rural Retreat, Virginia. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Rural Retreat. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was inspections, which is addressed in the next section.

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. This facility received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Incredibly, we awarded this nursing home a B- for our long-term care grade, which is not too bad of a score. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 92.5187 percent of its patients. This is slightly lower than we expected but still a decent figure. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was also below average. We found that this place had 2.69 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is somewhat concerning, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes based on the preexisting medical conditions of residents

Another issue is the F this facility received in the category of short-term care. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to forge a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Based on its score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 42.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final area we rated is nursing. This nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this area. When determining our nursing ratings, we analyze both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. This place provided only 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is an alarmingly low total. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility had poor marks in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients sustaining falls leading to serious injury. This facility was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.