Hamilton Healthcare Center

This nursing home really performed well in the category of long-term care, where it received an impressive grade of A-. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 98.809525 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Inspections is another category where this facility excelled. In fact, we awarded this nursing home an B+ for our inspections category. Our inspection scores are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's inspections. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

In our next category, we gave this nursing home a rock-bottom F in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care scores are critical for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This means a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

Switching gears to our next area, this nursing home did not perform well. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this was this facility's poorest category grade. Nursing ratings are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.