Town East Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with an A. This is a notably better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had a few 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 means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Additionally, we also wanted to note that this facility was given favorable long-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a grade of B+. This proved to be the facility's second best grade. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 96.039604 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home earned a strong nursing rating this year as well. It earned one of our better scores in that category with a F. The nursing category weighs several subcategories, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's weakest category is short-term care, which is the last area we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category. In spite of several acceptable grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless of a concern so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is often a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Considering its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 3.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.