Haven Convalescent Home

This facility received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this area. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home performed well in our long-term care category. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of A- for that area, which happens to be one of our most dominant grades. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.13793 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not take any chances. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's third highest category ended up being its short-term care score, where it received a B-. Our short-term care ratings are important for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

Switching gears to the fourth category, we awarded this facility a grade of D in nursing. This is the nursing home's least impressive category rating. Unfortunately, this score pulled down the facility's overall grade to a certain degree. There are a variety of subcategories included in this category. Many of the factors relate to levels of nurse staffing. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. While this facility didn't excel in nursing hours, it surprised us in some of the quality-based metrics in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed better than average in this statistic, which was one redeeming quality we found in this category.