Rockingham County Nursing Home
117 North Road, Exeter NH 03833 · (603) 679-5335 · 74.46% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Rockingham County Nursing Home is a very-large government-owned nursing home in Exeter, New Hampshire. This nursing home is a grade A facility, which is a truly elite grade. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top fifth of all facilities in the country. If you scroll down, you can see this facility's category grades, which are just as strong as its overall score.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 226 Beds
CCRC :
Government - County
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to performing well overall, this facility earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Therefore, it earned one of our best scores in that area with a grade of A+. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing rating includes a number of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This place provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure which typically corresponds with better quality care. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
The third category we assessed was long-term care. Adding to its superb profile, this facility also excelled in this category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A in that category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to offering very favorable levels of nursing care, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.15967 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.08 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a substantially better hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
In the last category we scored, this facility received a very strong grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this grade, the facility rounded out a straight A report card. Short-term care grades are meaningful for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that it performed better than most nursing homes in this area with 53.7 percent of its residents returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Rockingham County Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is vital to residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better