Charlwell House

We gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for our long-term care score. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 96.21993 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility an A-. The nursing score consists of a handful of factors, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we looked at is short-term care, where this facility was given a B- in this category. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The critical question is whether this also impacted quality of care. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 4.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

Turning the final category of inspections, this facility did not fare well. It received an F in this category. This pulled this nursing home's overall score down as we heavily weight this category. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection score. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we want to point out that this place received large government fines totaling more than $100,000. This generally signifies that a facility's poor performance spanned multiple years.