Life Care Center of New Market

Life Care Center of New Market is a facility located in New Market, Virginia, which has a population of 4,528 people. Featuring an overall rating of B, this facility is a great choice. Based on our ratings, you can do much worse than this nursing home. This nursing home is stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really excelled at short-term care, where it earned a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a substantially greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Virginia in this area with 63.2 percent of its patients returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Our final category is long-term care, in which we gave this nursing home a grade of B- in that area. In our long-term care grade, we focus on the sheer volume of care offered by a facility, along with some qualitative measures. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.16 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.