Chapin Home for the Aging

On top of earning a strong overall score, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the nursing home's recent inspection reports. In fact, we gave it a grade of A+ for that area, which is one of our highest grades. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not deem 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.

This nursing home fared well in the category of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- for that area, which is one of our most impressive grades. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 69.114876 percent of its patients. This is slightly lower than we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of C in this category is by no means a bad score. The nursing score is based on many subcategories, however, the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in our short-term care category, making this the nursing home's least impressive area. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the data we assessed. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.