Cottage Lane Health and Rehab

This nursing home received an inspection grade which is better than its overall grade. Inspection scores are based on the nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded this nursing home a very solid grade of B+ in this area. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 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 typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also gave this facility a positive grade in long-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B in this area, which happens to be one of our more impressive grades. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 91.15385 percent of its residents. This is a few points less than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to our last area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D for short-term care. This is the nursing home's weakest category score. Sadly, this score hurt the nursing home's overall grade to a certain degree. In our short-term care rating, we try to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. It looks like this nursing home was subpar in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the staffing figures we looked at. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.