Cobble Hill Health Center

This nursing home received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially would like to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it an A+ in this category. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Additionally, this nursing home also was awarded favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we gave it one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is typically a meaningful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

In addition, this facility also was given favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded it one of our better grades in that area, with a score of B. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 90.48508 percent of its patients against pneumonia. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final area we looked at was nursing, was this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this facility a D in that category. This really is one of just a couple of dings in an otherwise impressive report card. The nursing score is based on quite a few components, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these data points to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.