Voorhees Pediatric Facility

While this facility's overall score was not a highlight, it actually received a decent score in nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This place provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. While this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it did well in this subcategory. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning patients more often.

This nursing home's second best category turned out to be short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B-. In forming our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.

The third area we looked at was long-term care, where this facility was given a grade of B- in this area. In forming our long-term care ratings, we assess the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Unfortunately, this nursing home did not receive a favorable inspection grade. We gave it a just D in this category. Inspection ratings relate to a nursing home's inspections. One of the more significant factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We suggest you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This facility had 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.