Salemhaven

Salemhaven is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Salem, New Hampshire. Featuring an overall score of B+, this is a very good facility. In fact, this facility ended up being one of the top 50 nursing homes in New Hampshire. Fortunately, this facility did not have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. Additional information about these categories is available below.

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also performed well in our inspections category, where it received a grade of A+. Very few nursing homes fared as well in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home performed well in the category of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a score of A- for that category, which is one of our better grades. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 92.88026 percent of its residents. This is a bit below what we expected but still a respectable percentage. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home was given an impressive short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our better grades in that category with a grade of B. Our short-term care grades are presumably more important for people needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in this area with 49.7 percent of its patients returning home.

The final area we looked at was nursing. This nursing home was given an impressive nursing score this year, with a grade of B-. While this is not quite as strong as some of its other scores, this remains an acceptable grade for this area. Our nursing score assesses several subcategories, but the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. Based on the data, it looks like this place provides an impressive 3.9 hours per resident daily. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes offer. In determining our grades, we apply more weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.