Harrison Trail Health Campus

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared this well in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. It doesn't look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also fared very well in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is much higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The third category we analyzed was short-term care. Contributing to its dominant profile, this facility also excelled in that category. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- in that area. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Moving on to our next area, this nursing home was awarded a high-end nursing score. While this is not nearly as strong as a few of its other scores, this remains one of the stronger grades a facility can receive. Our nursing rating includes a number of subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.