Complete Care at Chestnut Hill

In addition to earning a great overall score, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for this category, which is one of our best grades. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility received impressive scores in the area of long-term care as well. Indeed, it received one of our most favorable grades in that category with a score of A-. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 81.9242 percent of its patients, which is somewhat lower than we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. Our nursing grade consists of several subcategories, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, while this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this subcategory.

The next category we rated is short-term care. We awarded this facility an acceptable score in this category, with a B-. Although this isn't as favorable as several of this nursing home's other scores, it is still not a poor grade. Short-term care grades are generally used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 4.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.