Habana Health Care Center

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home really excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A-. The nursing score weighs several datapoints. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category grades was in the category of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It actually fared better than most nursing homes in this category. Short-term care grades are typically used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

It should also be noted that this facility's inspection score was strong as well. In fact, we awarded it a B for its government inspection reports, which is one of our better scores. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

The final category we assessed was long-term care. We gave this nursing home a D for our long-term care category, making this the facility's least impressive area. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.2891 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.