Coffman Nursing Home

Coffman Nursing Home is one of six facilities located in Hagerstown, Maryland. Featuring an overall score of A-, we deemed this facility to be ranked among the top three facilities in the city. An overall grade in this range is a strong indicator of a superb facility. Based on our ratings, this facility is simply as good as it gets. Scroll down to find this nursing home's category grades, which are also strong. It is hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.

To go along with its great overall score, we gave this facility an A- for our inspections rating. Inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor dings aren't something to panic about.

We also would like to alert you to the fact that this facility received a dominant score of A- in our short-term care category. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is generally a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Maryland in this area with 63.2 percent of its patients returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This place offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.6 hours per resident daily. This is more nursing care than nearly any other nursing home offers. Finally, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any facility Maryland when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as good measures of the caliber of nursing care provided.

The final category we assessed was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B+. This completed a first-rate profile. Not many facilities earned a B+ or better in each of our categories. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the data points we considered on top of this facility's quality nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.40476 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for seniors. This combination proved to be successful as this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.54 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.