Forest Haven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Although we gave this place a weak overall grade, we awarded it a fairly respectable grade in the category of inspections, where it received a B-. This was quite a bit better than its other categories. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

This nursing home's second most favorable area is long-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the road score in this category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the datapoints we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Sadly, this nursing home's next highest category is short-term care. However, with a D in this area, it still performed somewhat poorly. Our short-term care grade is typically used to score a facility's rehabilitation services In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Given its score in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

The last area we rated was nursing, is this nursing home's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a D in that category. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This number is far below the national average. On top of receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found this place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric.