Sage Rehabilitation Hospital - Inpatient Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Facility

While we didn't give this nursing home a good overall grade, we actually gave it a strong grade in nursing, where it earned a B+. Nursing scores are mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a B in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our more impressive grades. Short-term care scores are meaningful for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

We gave this nursing home just a D for our long-term care rating. This is well below average in this category. Facilities that do not score well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down this facility's vaccination rates. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Turning our last category of inspections, this facility received a horrible grade. We weight this grade more heavily than other categories. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We would scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years totaling more than $100,000. This typically suggests that a nursing home's bad performance spanned multiple years.