Cambridge Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center

This nursing home's best category grade came in the area of government inspections. In this area, we gave this facility a B. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that 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. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

We also wanted to point out that this facility earned an impressive grade of B in our nursing category. In computing our nursing scores, we analyze both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we graded was short-term care, where this facility was awarded a B- in this area. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is considered to be a fair measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The next category we rated is long-term care. We awarded it a B- in this category. This is a fair grade in this category. In the area of long-term care, we assess the amount of care provided by a nursing home, rather than more sophisticated services. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated just 77.074234 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.