Hamilton Nursing Home

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this place also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A. Not many nursing homes performed better in that area. Inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility was given a strong long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area with a grade of B. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.7013 percent of its patients, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Nursing ratings are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we scored is short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of B- in this category. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is frequently a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation. It does not look like this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.