Harmony Manor Skilled Nursing Facility

Harmony Manor Skilled Nursing Facility is a facility located in Winnemucca, Nevada. This city has 16,150 people. This nursing home is an A rated facility, which is one of the most impressive ratings that we offer. In fact, this facility has the prestigious distinction of being one of the top 10 facilities in Nevada. Keep reading to find this facility's category ratings, which are also strong. It is hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing grade assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides an incredible 5.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Very few nursing homes provide this quantity of nursing care to their patients. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing high levels of care, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home also was elite in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of A. Very few facilities fared better in this area. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is frequently a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 61.7 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

The final category we scored was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B. Although this is not as dominant as several of this nursing home's other scores, it is still an excellent score. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the well above average volume of care provided by nurses and other staff at this facility, we also were happy with the nursing home's vaccination statistics. For example, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. This combination proved to be successful as this facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.31 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.