The Grove at New Castle

The Grove at New Castle is a small nursing home located in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Featuring an overall score of B, this looks like a good option. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this facility. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing grade is mostly based on a facility's nurse staffing. This place provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is an impressive figure which typically leads to higher quality care. Finally, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls leading to major injury, this nursing home performed as well as any facility in the country.

This facility's third highest category is long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. Long-term care grades focus on a facility's assistance with daily living instead of the highly skilled nursing and medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. One of the factors we considered in addition to this nursing home's quality nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 96.51741 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to avoid negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Although it had 2.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was not too far off the national average.

The last area we graded is short-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is a fair grade in this category. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is considered to be a useful measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. This place provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most facilities we looked at. This is often an excellent sign. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 27.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.