College Park Rehabilitation and Care Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care grade. In fact, it received one of our best grades in this category with a score of A-. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a life threatening health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to the area of short-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in this category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is considered to be a useful measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we discovered that this facility provided less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next category we graded is nursing. We gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is a very poor grade. This is clearly a significant disappointment. The nursing grade considers a host of data points. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This place offered just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. On top of its subpar nursing hours, this nursing home earned suboptimal marks in some of the quality-based measures we considered in determining our nursing grades. We found that a higher percentage of this place's residents suffered falls leading to serious injury. We believe that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this place receiving a terrible nursing score.