Centers for Living and Rehab

Centers for Living and Rehab is a large non-profit nursing home in Bennington, Vermont. Featuring an overall grade of A+, this nursing home is without a doubt a world class nursing home. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top five percentile of all nursing homes in the United States. Keep reading to find this nursing home's category grades, which also impressed us. You really can't do much better than a straight A profile.

We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home has received near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Our inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information located in 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 should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was superb in our short-term care rating. We gave them an exemplary grade of A+ in this category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Vermont in this area with 64 percent of its residents returning home.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. This nursing home fared very well in our long-term care category as well. We awarded them an elite grade of A+ in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. On top of providing elite levels of nursing care, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 99.60317 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. The last datapoint we assessed was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 1.94 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is middle of the road in this area.

The final area we rated was nursing, where this facility was given an A. This completed a very impressive report card. Only a select few facilities received an A- or better in each of our categories. The nursing rating weighs a handful of components, however, the primary one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Very few nursing homes provide this quantity of nursing care to their patients. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as good measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.