Sweeny House

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's short-term care score ended up being one of its higher grades. The facility received a grade of C in this area. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is frequently a solid assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The critical question is whether this also affected quality of care. The final statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

Sadly, this nursing home only earned a D for its long-term care score, which is well below average in this category. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The last area we rated is nursing, was this facility's worst area. We gave this facility a D in this category. Our nursing score assesses quite a few subcategories, however, the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an alarmingly low total. On top of its below average nursing hour totals, this nursing home received suboptimal marks in several of the quality-based metrics we considered in calculating our nursing grades. We found that more of this place's patients sustained falls leading to serious injury. We would argue that many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this place receiving a terrible nursing score.