Community Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Although we were not high on this facility overall, we gave it a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This score is more respectable than the facility's overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. This facility was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facilities next best category was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the pack grade in this category. Our short-term care grades are crucial for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The final category we analyzed is long-term care. It received an abysmal F for this area, which is a poor grade. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.125 percent of its patients, which is a very solid datapoint. Surprisingly, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.