The Residence at Salem Woods

To go along with its decent overall score, we awarded this facility an A for its inspection grade. This score is far better than the facility's overall rating. Inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, we awarded this facility a B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our more favorable grades. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 93.76771 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is a few points less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this nursing home an D. Our nursing category analyzes quite a few components, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This facility averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's least impressive category is short-term care, which is the last area we scored. For this area, we gave this facility a D. Our short-term care ratings are vital for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing. This means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. It looks like this nursing home was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we considered. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.