Warrenton Health and Rehab

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's long-term care grade appears to be one of its respectable scores. The nursing home was given a B- in this category. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.53659 percent of its patients, which is better than most nursing homes. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the category of short-term care, this facility was awarded just a D in this area. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Not surprisingly, we found that this place offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics doomed this nursing home's short-term care score.

The last area we graded is nursing, which turned out to be a weak link for this facility. We awarded this facility a grade of just D in the area of nursing. Our nursing score includes quite a few components, but the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This place averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is not a very impressive figure. This place also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hour totals. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this statistic.