Harston Hall

We want to point out that this nursing home outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in this category with a grade of A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.

Additionally, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our higher grades. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 54.025974 percent of its residents. This is a few points lower than we expected. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least 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 next area we assessed is short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of C in this area. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The final category we analyzed was nursing. We gave it a C in that area. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this category. There are a number of factors within this grade. Many of the subcategories are tied to staffing levels. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.