Harrison Terrace

Although this facility's overall score was as bad as it gets, it performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that area, which is one of our better scores. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid nursing homes that have too many severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care score and that actually wound up as its second best score. With our short-term care category, we seek to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Based on its score in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this place is well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

Sadly, this nursing home only received a D for its long-term care rating, which is not a score to write home about. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We discovered that this nursing home administered the vaccine to just 79.31035 percent of its patients, which is well below average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

The last area we rated is nursing, where this nursing home was given an abysmal score in this category also. We gave it an F for this category, which is definitely a major disappointment. Our nursing score considers many subcategories. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This place provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.