Newman Rehab & Health Care Center

This facility's overall grade was helped by a strong long-term care grade. We gave them one of our better grades in that category, with a B. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 83.22147 percent of its residents. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we gave this facility an B-. Nursing grades are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, nursing ratings also consider quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The next best area we awarded this facility in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most critical for folks requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.

Turning the final category of inspections, we gave this facility a D for our inspection category. This proved to be this facility's worst grade. We take a poor grade in this category very seriously. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also want to point out that this place was assessed large government fines in recent years totaling more than $100,000. This often indicates that a facility's bad track record spanned more than one year.