Havana Health Care Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

This nursing home ended up receiving a a very poor score in our short-term care category. It received a lowly F in this area. Short-term care scores are meaningful for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

This nursing home wound up receiving a rock-bottom score in our long-term care area. It was given an F in this area. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this facility vaccinated just 82.781456 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Turning to our last category, this facility really didn't fare very well here either. With a poor grade of F in nursing, this is really as bad as it gets. Nursing scores are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This particular place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This statistic is significantly below the national average. In addition to being below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in both of these statistics. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.