Nottingham Health and Rehabilitation

One of the many reasons this ended up being a great nursing home is it earned a very impressive grade in inspections. In fact, inspections ended up being its best category. In that area, we awarded this facility an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing score is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also want to note the fact that this nursing home received a strong grade of A- in our short-term care category. Short-term care grades are meaningful for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

In the final area, this facility also was given a very strong long-term care rating, with a B+. This topped off an elite profile. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.21429 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.