Harmony Physical Rehabilitation

While this facility's overall score was not a highlight, it received a somewhat respectable grade in the area of inspections. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not bad. Our inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an B-. We analyzed the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses worked with patients, in determining our score in this category. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a low total compared to most other nursing homes. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility's next best category turned out to be short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. In computing our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 6.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

Turning to our last category, this facility was awarded a decent long-term care score of C. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.