Rochelle Gardens Care Center

While we did not have many favorable things to say about this facility's overall grade, it did receive a respectable nursing grade of B-. The nursing rating assesses many factors, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, while this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did very well in this area.

This nursing home's next best area came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is more often than not a reliable measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on quality of care. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

This nursing home earned mediocre inspections in recent years. We gave them a C in this area. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This facility was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in categories J through L. This means inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to place resident safety or health in immediate harm or jeopardy. We are also concerned by the fact that 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.

Switching gears to our fourth area, we awarded this facility a D in our long-term care category. This is the nursing home's least impressive category grade. Facilities that do not fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home administered the vaccine to a relatively low 66.129036 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.