Hammonds Lane Center

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this facility fared well in short-term care. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Short-term care grades are crucial for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Among its many impressive scores, this facility received an excellent nursing score. We gave it an B+ in that area. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. 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 place 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.

This nursing home also was awarded a strong long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B in this category. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96.52997 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the last category we looked at, we found that this nursing home earned a solid inspection report this year as well. As a result, it received a decent score in our inspection category with a score of B. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.