Harmony Center for Rehabilitation and Healing

Unfortunately, we did not have any good things to say about this place's overall grade or its category grades. Its best area was the area of inspections. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received large government fines recently of more than $50,000. This often signifies that CMS inspectors grew tired after several years of bad inspections.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received an F for its short-term care score. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is more often than not a reliable measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. With its score in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the data we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for patients and the levels of training of the nurses. This facility averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final area we graded is long-term care. It received a lowly F for this category, which is a rock bottom grade. Long-term care ratings 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. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 22.348486 percent of its residents. This is quite a bit below what we expected. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.