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 five 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 facility provides an incredible 5.6 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this place was also above average in several of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Turning the page to our next category, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its short-term care grade. This is a superb grade. Our short-term care scores are likely more meaningful for folks requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. When we assessed this place's nursing hours, we found it offered much more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. This place fared as well as just about any nursing home in Nevada in this area with 61.7 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, less than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

Moving on to the last category, this facility was awarded an excellent long-term care grade. While this wasn't as elite as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of the stronger grades a facility can receive. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After assessing the significant amount of nursing care provided by this nursing home, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be successful as this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.