Monmouth Nursing Home

We would like to point out that this facility's nursing grade exceeded its overall grade. This nursing home earned a B in this category, which is one of our better grades. We scrutinized the levels of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This particular nursing home provided 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 place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also earned favorable inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. Inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home was awarded its third best category score in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In determining these short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The last area we rated was long-term care, is this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.