Hayes Convalescent Hospital

We awarded this facility one of our better grades in the area of long-term care, where it received an A. This is a notably better grade than its overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 94.64285 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. We looked at the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses worked with residents, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 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 place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility's next most favorable category was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. In computing these short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

In the last category of inspections, this ended up being this facility's weakest link. Inspection scores are based on a facility's recent government inspection reports. We gave this nursing home a D in this category, which is not a very good grade. Since this data is collected by government inspectors, we tend to take it pretty seriously. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Generally, you should be especially cautious when considering a facility that has severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This typically means that a facility's poor track record spanned more than one year.