Haskell Healthcare Center

This place fared well in the area of long-term care, where it received an A. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.38271 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Inspections is another category where this nursing home excelled. In fact, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for our inspections category. This score is far more impressive than its overall grade. Inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

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. We analyzed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our grade in this category. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

Switching gears to our last category, this facility really didn't perform very well. Due to a poor grade of F in short-term care, this was its worst grade. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.