Concord Care Center

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many elite scores, this nursing home received first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A- in that area. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.346405 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. There are a variety of criteria within this category. Many of the subcategories relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last category we rated was short-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of C. While this wound up being its least impressive category score, this is still nothing to be ashamed of. In our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.