Talmadge Park Rehabilitation and Care Center

Talmadge Park Rehabilitation and Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in East Haven, Connecticut. This facility received an overall grade of B+, which is a well above average rating. Based on our assessment, this nursing home looks like a solid choice for most people. Fortunately, this facility didn't have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories is available below.

To go along with its strong overall score, we gave this place a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating weighs quite a few datapoints, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Connecticut in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a resident at least once a day.

This facility is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.422714 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. The last statistic we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.07 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

The last area we looked at was short-term care. This nursing home was awarded an impressive short-term care score in our assessment, with a grade of B-. Even though this isn't quite as elite as some of its other grades, this is nevertheless a respectable rating in this area. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more than 50% more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 36.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.