The Center for Rehabilitation at Hampton Woods

On top of faring well overall, this facility also earned nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it earned one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a strong short-term care score. This actually is this nursing home's second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Moving on our next area, we awarded this facility a grade of A for its long-term care grade. This is a very impressive score. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. It doesn't look like this facility provided vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the last category, this nursing home also received an impressive nursing rating, with an A. This completed a rare straight A profile. We assessed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in calculating our rating in this area. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.