Hanford Post Acute

This facility received its best category score in long-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in this category. Our long-term care grades are more important for residents needing more conventional services related to activities of daily living. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This is more impressive than the facility's overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. Our nursing rating weighs quite a few datapoints, however, the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

The last category we graded was short-term care. This facility was given a C in the area. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 5.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.