Focused Care at Humble

Although we gave this nursing home a horrible overall grade, we awarded it an A- for our inspections score. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's second most respectable score was long-term care, but it still earned just a D in that area. This turns out to be a relatively poor score. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Another concern is the F this nursing home received in the category of short-term care. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Considering its poor score in this category, we were not surprised to discover this nursing home offers substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final category we graded was nursing, in which this nursing home was given an abysmal grade in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. In computing our nursing grades, we analyze both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.