Haven Place

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home received an excellent inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our best scores in this area with an A. Our inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing rating assesses several factors, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received a strong long-term care grade. In fact, this is this facility's third most impressive category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A-. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.26199 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In our last category, we gave this nursing home an A for its short-term care rating. This completed a first-rate report card. Our short-term care scores are vital for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. This means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. 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 data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.