Copper Rock Healthcare

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. This grade is more respectable than the facility's overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate deficiency data for this nursing home. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. In calculating our nursing ratings, we analyze both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat alarming figure which is well below average. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

This facilities next most favorable area was long-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this category. Long-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of nursing care. This means a broad spectrum of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 94.5946 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to the next area, we gave this facility a grade of D in short-term care. This was the facility's least impressive category score. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With its grade in this category, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 4.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.