Darway Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

On top of receiving a great overall score, this place also earned top notch inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in this category, with an A. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it was awarded a favorable short-term care grade. In fact, short-term care is its second most favorable category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A-. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is generally a useful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. There are several subcategories included in this category. Most of the subcategories reflect staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home's worst category was long-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. We gave it an F in this category. In spite of several excellent grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless somewhat alarming so we would like to to draw your attention to it. Facilities that do not score well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit concerned this facility gave the vaccine to only 89.189186 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.