Curis at Concord Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat concerning figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

This facility's second most respectable category was long-term care, but it nevertheless received just a D in that category. This is still a well below average grade. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were disappointed to learn that this nursing home vaccinated just 35 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

This place received an F for its inspection score. This is a very important category. Grades in this range typically mean we found some red flags on the nursing home's inspections. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection grade. We would scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

Moving on to our fourth area, this facility really didn't fare well in this area either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. In calculating these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Given its score in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this place is well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.