Newport Health Care Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be its best grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 83.72093 percent of its residents. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an A-. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning residents even once per day.

Turning to another of this facility's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection rating. In that area, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of B+. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The last category we scored was short-term care, in which this facility was awarded a B-. Although this is its poorest category grade, this is still a middle of the pack score. In our short-term care rating, we seek to forge a fair measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.