Skld Plymouth

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in nursing. We awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses are seeing patients and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 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 facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this facility's better category grades was in the area of short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. It actually outperformed most facilities in this area. Our short-term care ratings are arguably more critical for individuals in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final item we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 4.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facilities third best category was long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this area. In determining our long-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.36508 percent of its patients, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In our final category of inspections, this nursing home received an F here. This score was detrimental to this facility's overall score. With facilities that received this bad of an inspection score, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was hit with 10 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we need to point out that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This often means that a facility's bad track record has been an issue for multiple years.