Coventry Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation

Coventry Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation is one of a mere three available nursing homes located in Coventry, Rhode Island. This facility appears to be ranked among the better facilities we looked at. A grade in this range requires very strong marks across the board. We rated this facility in the top 50 facilities in Rhode Island. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

On the list of its many elite scores, this facility was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this category. Short-term care scores are crucial for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. It performed better than most nursing homes in this area with 55.7 percent of its patients returning home.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Our nursing category analyzes many components, most of which are based on nursing hours. This particular facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Roughly one quarter of that care was provided by registered nurses, which are among the most highly skilled nurses. Both of these statistics exceed the national average. Lastly, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Switching gears to our last area, this nursing home was given an acceptable long-term care score. Although this wasn't as strong as several of its other grades, this is still nothing to be ashamed of. In our long-term care rating, we analyze the volume of care provided by a facility, as well as a series of quality statistics. On top of looking at the impressive quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff at this nursing home, we also were impressed by the facility's vaccination record. For example, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 95.8132 percent of its patients, which is above average. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.