Claridge House Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility also earned first-rate inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our best scores in that category, with a grade of A. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This facility also received a favorable long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses commit to patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care provided.

The next category we analyzed turned out to be this facility's worst category. However, even in its worst category we still gave it a decent grade of B- in short-term care. Short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.