Concord Health & Rehab Center

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it an A for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with a list of deficiencies flagged. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

We awarded this facility just a D for our long-term care grade and that actually turned out to be its next most favorable score. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated just 85.4902 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Another concern was the F this facility was given in the category of short-term care. In calculating these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. With its score in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home didn't fare very well here either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. Our nursing rating is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor marks in the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in both of these statistics. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics helped pull down this facility's nursing grade significantly.