Regency Health and Rehabilitation Center

Regency Health and Rehabilitation Center is one of just a couple available nursing homes located in Yorktown, Virginia. We awarded it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the pack rating. In our view, this facility looks like a solid choice for most people. The best part of this nursing home's profile was its exemplary inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next section.

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home was awarded its next highest category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. With our short-term care category, we strive to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. It also performed well in this area with 56.1 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

We also awarded this nursing home a solid grade in the category of long-term care, with a C. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. While it had 2.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was not too far off the national average.

The final category we graded is nursing, which proved to be this facility's weakest category. We gave this facility a grade of D in this area. We looked at the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These scores hurt this facility's nursing grade significantly.