Harmony Physical Rehabilitation

In addition to being a first-rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more meaningful for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 7.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility also received a virtually flawless inspection. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. This was one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care. Adding to its superb resume, this facility also performed well in this category. In fact, we awarded it a of A for the area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were not able to locate this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to the next area, this nursing home also excelled in the nursing category. In fact, we gave it an A- in this area. This topped off a straight A profile. The nursing score includes a handful of subcategories, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.