Kennedy Health & Rehab

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Inspection grades are tied to several 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 their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor dings aren't the end of the world.

Building on its impressive profile, this facility also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it an B for that category. In computing our nursing grades, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also gave this nursing home a decent grade in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is typically a reliable assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next area we rated is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in that category. This is not a bad grade in this category. In determining our long-term care scores, we analyze the personal care offered to a facility's residents. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.55157 percent of its residents. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.