Hamilton Healthcare Center

Hamilton Healthcare Center is an average-sized facility located in Hamilton, Texas. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B-. A grade of this caliber requires some solid marks. Based on all of the relevant data, there are certainly much worse nursing homes out there. You also may want to review this facility's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.

This nursing home performed well in the area of long-term care, with an A in this area. This really propped up its overall score quite a bit. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 97.77778 percent of its residents, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.97 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility was close to average in this area.

This facility also performed well in the area of inspections. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that area with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. Our nursing score assesses several factors, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This place offered a meager 3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. On top of its below average nursing hours, this place received suboptimal scores in some of the quality-based measures we considered in determining our nursing grades. We found that more of this place's residents suffered falls leading to major injury.

This nursing home's worst area is short-term care, which is the last category we scored. It received an abysmal F for this area. Even with some solid scores in other categories, this score is still alarming so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. Short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we learned that this facility provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. The last measure we looked at in this area is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility a bit in this area as well, with just 46.6 percent of its patients returning home.