Hannah Duston Healthcare Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In this category, we awarded this facility an A-. Our nursing grade includes many subcategories, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.4 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its dominant profile, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning our next category, this nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in that area. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 88.18681 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Finally, we looked at the area of inspections. This nursing home received a very impressive grade in this category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This particular nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.