Chapel Woods Health and Rehabilitation

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it did receive a very good grade in the area of inspections. We gave it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's next most favorable area ended up being long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. In calculating our long-term care scores, we look at the assistance with daily living received by a facility's patients. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 82.845184 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a bit less than what we expected. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Sadly, this nursing home's third best category is short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed somewhat badly. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With its score in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Turning to our fourth category, this facility really did not perform very well in this category either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is just about as terrible as it gets. Our nursing rating considers several factors. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is not a very impressive figure. In addition to being below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in both of these metrics. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.