Chesapeake Health and Rehabilitation Center

Chesapeake Health and Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Chesapeake, Virginia. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. This facility didn't have any redeeming qualities. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is short-term care, which is discussed in the next section.

This facility actually performed well in our short-term care rating. In fact, we gave it a B for that area. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Virginia in this area with 61.4 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Interestingly, this nursing home's terrible overall grade can't really be attributed to its inspection reports. We gave it a C for inspections. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This tells you this facility avoided the more serious classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing grade assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. With just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. On top of receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this facility was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found that this place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really pulled down this facility's nursing grade substantially.

The last category we scored was long-term care. This nursing home was given an abysmal grade of F in this category. Facilities that do not score well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 39.029125 percent of its residents. This is pretty significantly lower than what we were hoping for. Unfortunately, this nursing home's hospitalization rate was also disappointing. Here we found that this facility had 2.19 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.