Rock Haven Nursing Home

This nursing home's overall score was bolstered by the fact that it has received favorable government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in this category, with a grade of B+. This is a much better score than the nursing home's overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. This nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we graded was short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. Our short-term care grades are probably more important for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. This means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.

This nursing home's weakest area was nursing, which is the last area we assessed. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category. Despite a few respectable scores in other categories, this score is nevertheless concerning so we would like to to draw your attention to it. Our nursing score assesses a handful of subcategories, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.