Hale Kupuna Heritage Home

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this facility excelled in inspections, where it received an A. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also received a very impressive long-term care score. This actually ended up being its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 92.934784 percent of its patients. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also received a very strong short-term care score. Indeed, this is this nursing home's third strongest category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A-. Short-term care grades are often employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The last area we rated is nursing, where this nursing home received a grade of A-. This topped off a first-rate profile. Only a select few facilities earned an A- or higher in in each area we assessed. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses commit to patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a resident at least once a day.