Hansford Manor

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher scores in that category, with an A+. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we gave it a top-shelf long-term care score. Indeed, we gave this facility a score of A. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's second worse rating is short-term care. We gave it a grade of F in this area. This is not a very impressive score in this area. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this facility did not perform well. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is this nursing home's worst grade. Our nursing rating is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these data points to be measures of the quality of nursing care.