Coventry Meadows

To pair with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for the area of inspections. Our inspection grades are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This nursing home is also above average in the area of short-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this category. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. We analyzed the levels of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final area we rated is long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in that area. In our long-term care assessment, we focus more on the volume of services offered by a nursing home, as well as some quality metrics. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 92.75766 percent of its residents. This is a few points less than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.