Harmonee House

Although this place's overall score was terrible, it fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid facilities that have too many deficiencies. 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 had a relatively positive inspection report.

Turning to the area of long-term care, this nursing home was awarded a grade of just D in that category. As it turns out, this wound up being its second best grade. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable percentage. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. The nursing rating is based on quite a few components, but the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these datapoints to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this nursing home really didn't perform very well here either. With an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. In forming these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Based on its score in this area, we weren't stunned to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.