Hale Ho'ola Hamakua

Hale Ho'ola Hamakua is a facility located in Honokaa, Hawaii, a city with a population of 4,878 people. With an overall rating of A-, this is clearly a very good nursing home. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top 25 percent of all facilities nationally. As you can find below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category ratings. It's hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. When calculating our nursing grades, we assess both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.9 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received a superb score of A- in our short-term care category. With our short-term care rating, we seek to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This facility elevated its score in this category by providing more care from registered nurses than the typical facility. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home rather than remaining at the facility permanently.

Moving on to the fourth area, this facility was given a very strong long-term care grade. Even though this is not as good as several of its other category grades, this is still one of our better scores a facility can receive. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to very favorable nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination record is top notch as well. Indeed, it vaccinated 99.54751 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.