Haven of Globe

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this facility performed even better in our inspections category which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. We gave it a grade of A for this category, which is one of our highest scores. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional quality feature for this facility is that it was given a very positive short-term care score. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a B+. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is typically a meaningful measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In addition, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded it one of our stronger scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.305084 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening health condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we looked at is nursing. This nursing home received a C in this area. Our nursing score analyzes several subcategories, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is well below average. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in some quality-focused metrics. We look at the percentage of residents who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care can reduce these problems.