Complete Care at Hamilton

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility also excelled in our inspections category, which is based on the facility's inspection reports. We gave it an A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also would like to alert you to the fact that this facility received a first-rate grade of A- in our long-term care area. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 83.28173 percent of its patients. This is slightly lower than we expected but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Our nursing score is primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the final area, this facility also was awarded an excellent short-term care rating, with a grade of B+. This wrapped up a first-rate report card. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.