Rumford Community Home

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this place also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in that area. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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.

This nursing home fared well in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a score of A- for that area, which turns out to be one of our better scores. Our short-term care grade is generally used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

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. When determining our nursing ratings, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Switching gears to the last category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D for long-term care. This was the nursing home's worst category rating. Nevertheless, you shouldn't over-emphasize a single weak category. For patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 99.1453 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.