Cherrydale Health and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility also fared well in the area of short-term care. For this reason, we awarded it a score of A- for that category, which happens to be one of our highest grades. Our short-term care ratings are probably most important for residents needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. Our nursing score looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care offered.

Switching gears to our fourth area, we awarded this nursing home a D in the area of long-term care. This is the facility's least impressive category grade. Of course, this score pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. For patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 96.04167 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.