Copperfield Healthcare and Rehabilitation

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.34513 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility received its third most favorable category grade in the area of short-term care. We awarded this facility a B- in this category, which is a decent score. In forming these short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. It does not appear that this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This nursing home's least impressive category is nursing, which is the final area we analyzed. We gave it a lowly F in this area. Despite some respectable grades in other categories, this grade is still disappointing so we felt obligated to make sure you are aware. Our nursing score is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.