Interlude Restorative Suites Plymouth

To pair with a strong overall grade, we awarded this place a grade of A+ for inspections. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional reason we rated this nursing home so favorably is that it was awarded an A+ short-term care grade. This is flat out as elite as it gets in this area. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Turning our third area, this facility was given a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that area. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last area we graded was nursing, where this facility received an A. This rounded out a first-rate report card. Only a select few nursing homes received an A- or higher in each of our categories. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving residents more frequently.