Sandwich Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

Although we didn't give this nursing home a good overall score, we did give it a strong grade in nursing, where it earned a grade of B+. This is better than most facilities in this area. There are quite a few subcategories within this grade. Most of the criteria reflect staffing levels. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category scores was in the category of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B. Our short-term care grade is often used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, it only received a grade of D for its inspection grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. We would pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 13 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

Switching gears to the next category, this nursing home really didn't fare very well here either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is about as terrible as it gets. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated 74.39024 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be significantly lower than what we expected. To our surprise, this place 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 score in this category.