Havencrest Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home has earned excellent health inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Contributing to its impressive profile, this facility also excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, it received a grade of A for that category. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a resident more frequently.

The final category we scored was long-term care. This facility was given a better than average long-term care score this year, with a grade of C. Even though this is not nearly as impressive as several of its other category grades, this is nevertheless a decent score in that category. With our long-term care score, we focus on the sheer quantity of services provided by a facility, along with some qualitative statistics. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 90.654205 percent of its residents. This is many points less than average. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.