Harrison Pavilion Care Center

Even though we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing score this year. We gave it a C in that category. There are numerous criteria included in this area. Most of these criteria relate to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a low total compared with most facilities. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this metric. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a resident more frequently.

We also would like to point out that this facility was given an F for its long-term care grade. For long-term care residents, the nursing home'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 residents. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.8417 percent of its residents, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

We wanted to draw your attention to this place's inspection grade where it received an F. For nursing homes with bad inspection ratings, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This facility was assessed one category J through K deficiency, which are among the worst deficiencies. These categories mean that inspectors found a deficiency which puts patient safety or health in immediate danger. Finally, we would like to point out that this nursing home received significant government fines totaling over $100,000. This typically suggests that a facility's bad track record has been an issue for multiple years.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. It received a lowly F in this area, which is an abysmal score. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. With its score in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.