Charlestown Community

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. With our short-term care score, we try to forge a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this facility an A-. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also performed well in the category of inspections. It earned a nearly flawless inspection report this year. It received one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of B+. Inspection scores are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

The final area we analyzed ended up being this nursing home's poorest area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a decent grade of B- for long-term care. In calculating these long-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility provided the vaccine to 95.80645 percent of its patients, which is an above average figure. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.