Cinnaminson Center

This facility received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a B-. In determining our long-term care grades, we analyze the assistance with daily living received by the nursing home's residents. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 92.41192 percent of its residents, which is a bit less than we anticipated. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. In calculating a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below average. Finally, although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it did well in this subcategory.

Moving on to the final area, this facility did not perform very well. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this was this facility's worst category grade. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is often a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Considering its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this place is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.3 percent of its patients returning home.