Mechanicsville Specialty Care

On top of being a great nursing home overall, it also earned A+ inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly perfect. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving residents more frequently.

In addition, this facility also was awarded favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we gave it one of our stronger scores in that category, with a score of B. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.17355 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Switching gears to our last area, this facility received a respectable short-term care grade. While this isn't quite as strong as some of its other grades, this is really not a poor grade. Short-term care grades are meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final metric we considered in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.