Orchard Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Additionally, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our higher scores. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.37888 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Tragically, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care score. In computing these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Moving on to our next area, this nursing home really did not perform very well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is this facility's worst category. When calculating a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses are seeing residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is well below average. This facility also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric.