Webster at Rye

Webster at Rye is a small non-profit nursing home in Rye, New Hampshire. Featuring an overall grade of A+, this nursing home is without a doubt a world class nursing home. We were so impressed with this facility that we rated it as one of the top 500 best facilities in the United States. Keep reading to find this nursing home's category grades, which also impressed us. You just can't do any better than a straight A report card.

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home received a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it earned one of our highest scores in that area with a grade of A+. Inspection ratings are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not consider 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 an excellent sign.

This top-shelf facility also excelled in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A+. Very few nursing homes performed better in this area. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. This facility provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most nursing homes we looked at. This is an excellent sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in this area with 62.2 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

Moving on our third category, this high end nursing home also excelled in the category of long-term care. In this area, it received a A+. Only a small group of facilities fared better in this area. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After looking at the impressive nursing care provided by this nursing home, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.66667 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be successful as this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.62 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

In the last area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing rating. This wrapped up an elite report card. We weighed the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality measures we assessed. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared as well as any facility New Hampshire in this category. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers could be avoided by providing better nursing care and a policy of turning residents even once per day.