Haviland Care Center

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a strong long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.295456 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing score weighs several datapoints, however, the main consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we assessed was short-term care, where this facility was given a B-. This is this nursing home's least impressive category. This is still a middle of the pack score. Short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.