Hampshire Center

To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for its inspection grade. This grade is far more impressive than its overall grade. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's better category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B+. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.5122 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. Our nursing score weighs quite a few factors, but the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Moving on to the next category, we gave this facility a D for our short-term care category. This is the facility's worst category grade. Sadly, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall grade a bit. Our short-term care grades are critical for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We found that this nursing home was below average in two of the key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.