Cumberland Health and Rehab

One of the reasons this turned out to be a strong facility is that it received a very impressive inspection grade. Inspections turned out to be its best category. In that area, we awarded this facility an A. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given strong grades in the area of long-term care as well. Consequently, we gave it one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home was given an above average short-term care score, with a B+ in the area. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is generally a reliable measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. It doesn't look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 4.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final area we looked at was nursing. This facility was given an impressive nursing grade this year, with a B-. Although this is not nearly as good as a few of its other scores, this remains a decent rating for this category. Our nursing score consists of several components, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provides only 0 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below average. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. While this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this subcategory. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning patients more frequently.