Powerback Rehabilitation Moorestown

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home earned near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Inspection scores are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

On the list of its many high-end grades, this nursing home was given first-rate short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in this area. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to score a facility's rehabilitation services. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. When calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are with residents as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient more often.

In the final category, we gave this nursing home an A+ for its long-term care score. This wrapped up a very strong profile. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.