Hale Malamalama

To go along with its first-rate overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for nursing. We weighed the skill-level of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses were with patients, in calculating our rating in this category. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded it one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 95.419846 percent of its residents, which is better than the average nursing home. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of B+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The last area we assessed was short-term care, where this nursing home received a B+. This finished off a very impressive report card. Very few facilities earned a B+ or higher in every category. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is considered to be a solid assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.