Rockingham County Nursing Home

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Very few places performed as well in this area. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. Our nursing rating assesses a handful of components, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning the page to our next category, we gave this nursing home a score of A- for its short-term care grade. This is a superb score. In our short-term care score, we try to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this nursing home received an extremely favorable long-term care grade. Although this isn't quite as impressive as several of its other grades, this is still one of the more favorable scores a facility can receive. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 98.97119 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, 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.