Rockland Ridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is as good as it gets in this very important area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without having complete information regarding deficiencies, it is a challenge to really evaluate it in this area.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing grade is mostly associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also was awarded a favorable short-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B in this category. Short-term care grades are typically employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The next area we assessed was long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a decent grade of B-. This actually proved to be this facility's worst category. In our long-term care grade, we focus more on the sheer volume of care offered by a nursing home, as well as a handful of quality measures. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Lastly, this place excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.