Harmon Hospital - Snf

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. There are a host of factors included in this category. Most of the datapoints are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 1.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to its elite accomplishments in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for its long-term care score. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This place is as good as it gets in this area.

We gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the final category, this nursing home also was given a very strong short-term care rating, with an A-. This finished off an elusive straight A profile. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is generally a reliable assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.