Kadima Rehabilitation & Nursing at Palmyra

While we did not have many favorable things to say about this facility's overall grade, it did receive a respectable short-term care grade of B-. This boosted its profile to some extent. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is often a meaningful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what effect this had on the quality of care. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

We also ended up giving this facility a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B-. When calculating our nursing ratings, we weigh both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. It scored well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the number of hours of care offered.

This facility earned slightly below average government inspections in recent years. We gave them a C in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This nursing home had 4 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, we would like to note that this nursing home received government fines recently. We were relieved to find that these fines were on the lower end of the spectrum. However, this isn't what you hoped to find.

Switching gears to the last area, this facility really did not perform well here either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit concerned this nursing home gave the vaccine to a relatively low 70.289856 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.