Curis at Concord Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

We weren't high on this nursing home's overall grades or its category grades. We gave it just a just D in nursing and that proved to be its best score. We assessed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is slightly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Unfortunately, this nursing home received an F for its inspection score. This is a particularly important category. Grades in this range typically point to some red flags on the facility's government inspection reports. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed significant government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This usually signifies that a nursing home'spoor track record spanned multiple years.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care grade. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 48.076923 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be several points lower than what we expected. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

The next area we graded was short-term care, in which this nursing home was given a poor grade in this area as well. Sadly, it received an F for this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Based on its score in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.