Hardin Hills Health Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility also was awarded an impressive short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this area. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is frequently a reliable assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home received an impressive long-term care grade, with a B in the category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we looked at is nursing, in which this nursing home was awarded a B-. While this proved to be its weakest category grade, this is still nothing to be ashamed of. The nursing category includes quite a few components, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below average. Finally, although this place didn't rank highly in terms of its nursing hours, it fared much better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average.