Harmonee House

Although we did not rate this facility highly overall, we want to point out its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. In spite of this deficiency, this place still received a relatively favorable report.

We gave this nursing home just a D for our short-term care score and that actually ended up being its second most respectable category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. With its grade in this category, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the data we looked at. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below the national average.

We were surprised to find that this facility also excelled in the category of nursing. In fact, we awarded it an D for that category, which is one of our best grades. When calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are caring for patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This place averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This place fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next category we assessed was long-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.