Hanford Post Acute

Hanford Post Acute is a large facility in Hanford, California. It looks like this facility is a relatively poor nursing home. A score of this caliber suggests we found a few red flags. Keep in mind that Hanford received a city grade of B-, so should consider other options in the city as well. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, you can continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

Although we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent grade in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's long-term care grade is one of its higher grades. The nursing home was awarded a C in this category. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. While it had 2.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was not too bad.

This facility's third most favorable area came in the area of short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. In forming these short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it performed decently in this area, with 48.8 percent of its patients returning home.

Turning to our final area, we gave this nursing home a D in the area of nursing. This was the nursing home's weakest category grade. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. According to CMS records, this nursing home averaged 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This was actually above the national average. Keep in mind, however, that when we compute our nursing scores, we apply more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of skill. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This facility was above average in two of the major statistics we look at, with good scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.