The Culpeper

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it earned a grade of A. Our nursing score assesses many subcategories, however, the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning patients at least once a day.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility also received a impressive short-term care grade. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's third best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This category is frequently a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final area we analyzed was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our more favorable scores in this area, with a B. While this is not as strong as some of this nursing home's other scores, it is still a fine grade. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 94.16058 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.