The Waters of Newport

We want to point out that this facility outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in this area with an A-. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you 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. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of this nursing home's better category grades came in the area of long-term care. This turned out to be its second most favorable category. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. Our long-term care grades are more critical for folks needing more traditional services related to activities of daily living. We were unable to find a few datapoints in computing this facility's long-term care rating, so this grade may not be as accurate as our other category scores.

This nursing home's next most favorable category was short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a C. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

The final category we looked at is nursing. This facility was given a grade of C for the area. The nursing grade includes many factors. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This facility provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below average. Finally, we like to look at quality-based metrics, such as the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.