Middletown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. The nursing grade assesses a handful of components, but the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0.5 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

On the list of its many high-end grades, this facility was awarded first-rate short-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A in that category. Our short-term care grade is often used to score a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection ratings are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

The next category we assessed is nursing, is this nursing home's weakest area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this category. This was one of just a couple of weak points in a quality report card. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for folks needing more traditional services related to activities of daily living. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.72727 percent of its residents, which is an above average percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.