Hanover Health and Rehabilitation Center
8139 Lee Davis Road, Mechanicsville VA 23111 · (804) 559-5030 · 85.75% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Hanover Health and Rehabilitation Center is located in Mechanicsville, Virginia. This city has a total of 63,718 people. This nursing home was given an overall rating of F. Mechanicsville received a city grade of B-, so there are other options in the city worth looking at. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, nursing grades are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
While we graded this nursing home extremely poorly overall, it received a somewhat respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a B- in that category. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This particular facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is far below average. Finally, although this place didn't rank highly in terms of its nursing hours, it fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also didn't grade out poorly in the category of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a B- in that area, which ended up being another one of its more respectable grades. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more critical for people needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Remarkably, this facility provides its residents with at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it performed well in this metric with 71.9 percent of its residents returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
Unfortunately, this facility received really poor inspection reports in recent years, causing us to give them an F for inspections. An F in this category is usually a signal that there were some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection score, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to the last area, this facility didn't perform well here either. With a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category likely don't provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities offer. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated only 36.725662 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.39 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Hanover Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are often linked to lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care can limit the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision can minimize the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better