Harding Pointe

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category scores was in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Tragically, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care score. In calculating these short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we learned that this place offers significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home's worst area is nursing, which is the last category we looked at. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this area. Despite multiple acceptable grades in other areas, this score is still alarming so we would like to to point it out. Our nursing category is based on quite a few subcategories, many of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This place offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is well below the national average. On top of its weak nursing hours, this place earned poor marks in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We found that more of this place's patients suffered falls leading to serious injury.