Hammond Nursing Home

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best grades in this category with a grade of A+. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we still had favorable view of this facility's recent inspections.

Additionally, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was given positive long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in this category, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the nursing home's second best score. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.70414 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. We analyzed the licensure of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our rating in this category. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Switching gears to the last category, this facility did not fare well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this was this facility's poorest category. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this nursing home offers substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.