Hayes Convalescent Hospital

This nursing home really performed well in the category of long-term care, where it earned an impressive grade of A. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.0099 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A-. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was awarded a great short-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it one of our best grades in that area with a grade of A-. Short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Moving on the final category of inspections, this nursing home did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in this category. This pulled this facility's overall grade down as we heavily weight this category. For facilities with bad inspection grades, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we need to point out that this place was assessed significant government fines totaling more than $100,000. This generally suggests that a nursing home's bad track record spanned multiple years.