Plymouth Village

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home performed well in long-term care. We gave it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.02913 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Additionally, this nursing home also received favorable short-term care grades this year. Indeed, we gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B. Short-term care grades are often used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The last category we analyzed is nursing. In this category, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. This turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. In determining our nursing scores, we weigh both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing scores. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally decent indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.