Grimes Center
1354 Chapel St, New Haven CT 06511 · (203) 867-8300 · 89.82% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Grimes Center is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in New Haven, Connecticut. Featuring an overall score of A+, this facility is without a doubt a superb facility. In fact, this facility has the prestigious distinction of being one of the top 25 facilities in Connecticut. This also turned out to be a very consistent nursing home with consistent scores in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 114 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. Our nursing grade includes quite a few factors, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 5.1 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This was one of the higher totals we found. In addition, a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these statistics are impressive. In addition to providing impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
This top notch nursing home also dominated in the area of short-term care, where it received a score of A+. Only a small group of facilities performed better in this area. Our short-term care grade is typically used to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This place is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. In fact, it provided roughly 50% more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical nursing home. This is what we like to find when grading a nursing home in this category. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Connecticut in this area with 69.6 percent of its patients returning home.
Facility Inspections
Another quality feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
In the last category we looked at, this facility was awarded a very favorable grade of A- in our long-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home topped off a straight A report card. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 94.46641 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. The last datapoint we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.42 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as impressive as some of its other scores in this area, this number may be skewed for some nursing homes based on the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Grimes Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients which suffered from pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols limits the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be skewed for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used for several medical conditions, such as dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients which were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Many in the industry believe that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Many in the industry believe that mobility is vital to patients mental and physical health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's generally correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better