Chatham Health & Rehabilitation Center

Chatham Health & Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home in Chatham, Virginia. This turns out to be a middle of the pack facility, with an overall grade of B-. This place seems to have a few things working in its favor. The best part of this place's report card is its remarkable inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded a strong long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 98.80478 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility was awarded its next best category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in this category, which is a decent grade. In computing our short-term care grades, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This area is typically a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area with 59.2 percent of its residents returning home. This really bolstered its score in this area.

This facility's weakest area was nursing, which is the last area we scored. In this category, we awarded this facility a D. Our nursing score is based on a number of factors. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This place offered just 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This place was above average in two of the metrics we considered, with good scores for avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.