Coventry Meadows

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also received first-rate government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in this area, with an A+. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Among the reasons we graded this nursing home so favorably is that it was awarded a strong short-term care score. Indeed, short-term care ended up being its second highest category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A-. Our short-term care grade is often used to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.1 percent of this nursing home'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 B-. 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. Our nursing rating focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

Switching gears to our next category, we gave this nursing home a D in our long-term care category. This was the nursing home's weakest category rating. Naturally, this grade pulled down the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were disappointed to learn that this nursing home vaccinated only 88.95027 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.