Hammonds Lane Center

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. When calculating a facility's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses are caring for patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provided 3.5 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to its elite profile, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for the category. Our short-term care grades are crucial for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country with 59 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility also received excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in that category, with an impressive grade of A-. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

In the final category we assessed, this nursing home was given a very strong grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home completed an elite profile. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.532646 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.