Davis Health & Wellness Center at Cambridge Villag

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. In crafting these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we considered in this category is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 7.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Nursing scores are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to the last area, we gave this facility a D in our long-term care category. This is the facility's worst category rating. Nevertheless, you should not focus exclusively one bad score. Long-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of nursing care. This means a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information on vaccination rates. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.