Randolph Nursing Home

In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our best scores in that category with an A+. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A-. Our nursing grade weighs quite a few components, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident more frequently.

This facility received strong scores in the category of short-term care as well. Consequently, it received one of our most favorable grades in that area with a area of A-. Short-term care grades are typically employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The last category we rated is this facility's weakest category. However, even in its weakest link we still gave it a decent grade of C in long-term care. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.72727 percent of its patients. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.