Raintree Convalescent Hospital

Although this place's overall grade is not a highlight, it received a slightly more favorable grade in the category of inspections. We awarded it a B- for this category, which is not bad. We believe that one of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. In computing a facility's nursing grade, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a low total compared with most other nursing homes. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home was awarded its third most favorable category score in the category of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in this area, which is a respectable grade. Long-term care grades are commonly used to grade a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 83.561646 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is quite a bit below what we expected. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last category we looked at is short-term care, is this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. 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 assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.