Chatham Nursing & Rehabilitation

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Additionally, we also wanted to point out that this facility was awarded impressive long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our better grades in this category, with a grade of B. This proved to be the facility's second strongest score. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.00333 percent of its residents. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's next highest area is short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. With our short-term care grade, we try to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 4.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

The final category we scored is nursing, which ended up being this nursing home's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. Of course, this grade hurt the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. There are several factors within this area. Most of the subcategories reflect staffing levels. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. On top of its weak nursing hours, this facility received suboptimal scores in several of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We found that a higher percentage of this nursing home's patients suffered falls leading to serious injury.