Sentara Rehabilitation & Care Residence-Chesapeake

One of the reasons this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned a very favorable nursing rating. Its nursing score ended up being its best category. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. The nursing category includes a handful of datapoints, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's short-term care grade appears to be one of its better features. The nursing home was given a B- in this area. Short-term care grades are meaningful for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.

This nursing home earned a solid inspection report this year as well, with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that category with a score of B-. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's weakest category was long-term care, which is the last category we analyzed. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 91.42091 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly lower than we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.