Newport Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

We also would like to emphasize the fact that this nursing home has earned nearly flawless government inspections recently. We awarded them an A in this category. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor dings aren't the end of the world.

Among its many high-end grades, this facility received an excellent short-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A in this category. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This category is considered to be a reliable assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The third category we graded is long-term care. This nursing home received a very positive long-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in the area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. It does not look like this nursing home provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last area we looked at is nursing. In this area, we awarded this nursing home an acceptable grade of B-. This was this nursing home's worst area. The nursing rating considers several data points. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in some quality-focused measures. We like to look at the percent of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are measures of the quality of nursing care, since superior care can reduce these problems.