Harbor Village Rehabilitation & Nursing Center

To pair with its favorable overall score, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for our inspection category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Nursing ratings are mostly based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a resident at least once a day.

The third category we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home was given a favorable long-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in the category. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we analyzed was short-term care. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a strong grade of B. Short-term care grades are generally used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. We were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.