Powerback Rehabilitation Moorestown

To go along with a strong overall score, we awarded this facility an A+ for our inspection category. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given an A+ for its short-term care score. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Compounding its high-end profile, this facility also was awarded a strong long-term care grade, with a score of A. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. It doesn't appear that this facility provided information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the next category, this nursing home was given an extremely favorable nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it an A in this category, rounding out a straight A profile. Our nursing score includes a handful of subcategories, but the main consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.