Deptford Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare

Deptford Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare is located in West Deptford, New Jersey. The city has 36,116 people. With an overall score of D, this is a lower end facility. Based on our assessment, we'd struggle to recommend this place. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with a bunch of deficiencies flagged. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's short-term care grade ended up being one of its more favorable features. The facility was awarded a grade of C in this area. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 38.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. There are many subcategories included in this area. Many of the factors are tied to staffing levels. This place provided just 3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Although this place didn't have as many nursing hours as many of the other facilities we looked at, it was still better than average in the area of avoiding major falls.

Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home really didn't fare very well here either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. Facilities that do not score well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 93.05211 percent of its residents, which is a few points below what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.11 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.