Chasehealth Rehab and Residential Care

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home really outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in this category with an A+. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home's next most favorable category ended up being its short-term care score, where it received a B-. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home's third most favorable area is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road score in this area. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 83.962265 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points lower than the national average. Nevertheless, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we assessed is nursing. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this area. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is significantly below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.