Hamilton Nursing Home

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 96.56652 percent of its patients, which is more than most nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. The nursing rating consists of quite a few datapoints, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided 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 place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we looked at is short-term care. In this category, we awarded this nursing home an acceptable grade of B-. This actually is this facility's weakest area. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. 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. Unfortunately, this was below average.