Chesterwood Village

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Among this nursing home's other achievements is its superb short-term care grade. We awarded them one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a score of A-. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Remarkably, this facility provides its residents with at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 67.6 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

In addition, this facility also was awarded favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave it one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 99.50495 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.52 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

Switching gears to the final category, this facility was given a decent nursing grade. Although this wasn't quite as good as many of its other grades, this is truly not a terrible score. Our nursing rating weighs a variety of subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also weighed some quality-based assessments. This facility scored well in a few of the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place beat the national average. This is usually a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care.