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John L. Levitow Health Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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287 West St,
Rocky Hill CT 06067

(860) 616-3700

62.72% estimated occupancy ¹

John L. Levitow Health Care Center is the only facility we identified in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. With an overall grade of A+, this facility is among the highest-rated facilities we assessed. We really couldn't find many negative things to say about this nursing home. Its grades are impeccable. If you look further down this page, you can see this place's category scores, which appear to be just as impressive as its overall rating.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
Has Family Council
Government - State

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Awards

Best Nursing Home in Connecticut Awards 2021

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Nurse Quality

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. Our nursing grade looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Long-term Care Quality

This facility also was awarded an A+ long-term care grade, making it one of the few facilities to be awarded multiple A+ category scores. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

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Short-term Care Quality

Turning the page to our next category, this facility was given an excellent short-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A in this area. Short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Facility Inspections

Lastly, this nursing home also earned excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in the area of inspections, with an A. Few other nursing homes earned an A- or better in all four categories. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It does not look like we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

John L. Levitow Health Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In John L. Levitow Health Care Center, 5.46% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely caused by residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In John L. Levitow Health Care Center, 3.15% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term stay residents who have had falls which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In John L. Levitow Health Care Center, 2.25% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who had urinary tract infections. Although a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different nursing homes due to facilities having differing reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In John L. Levitow Health Care Center, 23.46% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In John L. Levitow Health Care Center, 12.06% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are used to treat patients suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In John L. Levitow Health Care Center, 0.73% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In John L. Levitow Health Care Center, 99.71% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient well-being.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In John L. Levitow Health Care Center, 22.48% of Patients

This is the percent of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of deterioration of a patient's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In John L. Levitow Health Care Center, 16.46% of Residents

This is the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In John L. Levitow Health Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In John L. Levitow Health Care Center, 16.46% of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.