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 gave this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care grade and that actually wound up as its second highest score. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is often a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Considering its score in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Moving on to the area of long-term care, this nursing home received just a D in this area. For patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.99497 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

The last area we graded was nursing, where this nursing home received a bottom of the barrel score in this category also. Sadly, it received an F for this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. Our nursing grade is based on quite a few components, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.