Harrogate

To go along with a favorable overall score, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's quality category grades came in the category of short-term care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a score of B+. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It outpaced most facilities in this area. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.85714 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final area we looked at is nursing, in which this facility received a grade of B. Believe it or not, this ended up being this facility's least impressive category. A facility could be doing a lot worse when their lowest score still is better than most other facilities. Nursing scores are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 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 generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.