Chaplinwood Nursing Home

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. Its inspection grade was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave it an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we had a generally favorable view of this nursing home's inspections.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. There are a variety of criteria included in this grade. Most of the subcategories relate to nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, nursing scores also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

This nursing home's next most favorable area is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. This is basically a slightly below average score in this category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. The facility supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

The final area we graded was long-term care, which was this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 74.82269 percent of its residents. This is significantly below average. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.