Fredericksburg Health and Rehab

Although we were not complementary of this place's overall performance, it did receive an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that area with a grade of B+. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility's second highest category was its long-term care grade, where it received a B-. Long-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of nursing services. This includes a vast range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.55073 percent of its patients. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Unfortunately, this facility's next best score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed somewhat badly. Short-term care grades are generally used to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Based on its grade in this area, we were not surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 5.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we assessed was nursing, which is a low point for this nursing home. We gave this facility a grade of just D for nursing. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in determining our rating in this area. This particular facility averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This statistic is significantly below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.