Harlee Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

We also awarded this nursing home a score of A- for our short-term care grade. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. Nursing grades are primarily associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this subcategory. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a resident at least once a day.

Turning to our last area, we awarded this facility a D in our long-term care category. This was the facility's worst category score. Unfortunately, this category hurt the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 58.139534 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.