Kent County Nursing Home

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of long-term care. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.64865 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. 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.

This nursing home also received an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. There are a number of subcategories within this grade. Most of these criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we graded is short-term care. We gave this facility a decent score in that area, with a grade of B-. Even though this isn't on par with many of this facility's other grades, it is nevertheless not a major area of concern. Our short-term care grades are believed to be more important for people requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.