Norwalk Memorial Home

To pair with its strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its short-term care rating. Our short-term care grades are likely more meaningful for residents in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility has received near flawless government inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. We were not able to locate deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Additionally, this nursing home also received favorable long-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our stronger scores in that area, with a score of B+. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we analyzed is nursing. This nursing home was awarded an impressive nursing grade this year, with a B. Even though this is not quite as impressive as several of its other scores, this is still one of our better grades for that area. Our nursing rating is largely based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This place fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided with better nursing care.