Hale Makua - Kahului

One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned an A+ in short-term care. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A. We analyzed the levels of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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.

This facility received a good score in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor dings aren't the end of the world.

The final category we assessed was this facility's weakest category. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a respectable grade of B- in long-term care. Long-term care grades assess a nursing home's personal care instead of the highly skilled therapy and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated just 87.46479 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.