Chase City Health and Rehab Center

Chase City Health and Rehab Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Chase City, Virginia. This nursing home received an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a lower end rating. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Chase City. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its strong inspection score. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category grades

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's next most favorable category is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. With our short-term care score, we endeavor to craft a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This place fared much better in this area with 64.8 percent of its patients returning home.

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our long-term care score. This is not a score to write home about. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 97.46835 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.06 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

The final category we graded is nursing, where this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel score in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area, which is definitely somewhat alarming. There are many criteria included in this grade. Most of the criteria reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. In addition to its subpar nursing hours, this place also received suboptimal scores in some of the quality-based metrics we considered in determining our nursing scores. We found that a higher percentage of this nursing home's residents suffered falls which led to serious injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this nursing home receiving a poor nursing score.