Havasu Regional Medical Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. There are a number of datapoints included in this category. Many of the factors relate to levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.7 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

An additional reason we rated this nursing home so favorably is that it was given an A+ short-term care score. This is just about as strong as it gets in this category. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Moving on our next category, we awarded this nursing home a score of A for its long-term care score. This is a very impressive score. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another impressive feature for this facility is its inspection score. In that category, we gave this nursing home an A, finishing off its straight A performance. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.