Harmony Center for Rehabilitation and Healing

With an address in Xenia, Ohio, Harmony Center for Rehabilitation and Healing is one of four facilities in the city. This nursing home received a bottom of the barrel overall rating based on the data we looked at. This facility is really as bad as it gets. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category was inspections, which is addressed in the next section.

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Sadly, this nursing home's second most favorable category is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared relatively poorly. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is more often than not a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. With its weak rating in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this facility offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last area we looked at in this area is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. It fared better in this area, with 57.6 percent of its patients returning home. This was just about this nursing home's only redeeming quality in this category.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing score considers numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provided just 2.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This nursing home also had terrible marks in several of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than twice the national average in this datapoint. This is quite alarming when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.

The last category we graded is long-term care, in which this facility received a bottom of the barrel score here also. It received a lowly F for this area, which is obviously somewhat alarming. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated 70.722435 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit lower than the national average. We were stunned with the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 3.94 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is more than double the national average. This is definitely a concerning figure.