Davis Health & Wellness Center at Cambridge Villag

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home earned an A+ inspection grade. This is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Among this nursing home's other accomplishments is its first-rate short-term care score. It received one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a score of A. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is typically a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 7.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. The nursing rating considers numerous factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averages 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last area we looked at was long-term care, which ended up being a low point for this facility. We awarded this nursing home a D in the area of long-term care, making this the facility's weakest category. We'd still recommend that you consider all of a nursing home's grades. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate this place's vaccination data. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.