Harris Health and Rehab

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

One of this facility's better category scores was in the category of long-term care. This proved to be its second most favorable category. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B-. Our long-term care grades are crucial for prospective residents requiring personal care. We were missing a few datapoints in computing this nursing home's long-term care grade, so this grade may not be quite as accurate as some of our other category grades.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. There are a variety of criteria within this grade. Many of the subcategories are tied to staffing levels. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, while this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of our quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this area.

The next category we analyzed was short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in that category. In computing our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is generally a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.