Hartford Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with an A+. This is a much better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home's next best category is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B-. Our long-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of nursing services. This means a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 91.33663 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is a few points below what we anticipated but still a decent figure. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. The nursing grade consists of a handful of components, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

Moving on to the fourth area, this facility was given a C for short-term care, which is a respectable rating. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.