Haymount Rehabilitation & Nursing Center

The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of A+. This is a notably better score than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. 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.

We also awarded this facility a positive grade in long-term care. This facility earned a B+ in this area, which is one of our more favorable scores. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. After considering the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 89.82456 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Nursing grades are mostly based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This place provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. While this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this area. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving residents at least once a day.

The next area we graded was short-term care, which turned out to be this facility's worst area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. Sadly, this category pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. Our short-term care scores are likely more meaningful for folks needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. It appears that this place was below average in two of the key staffing metrics we focus on. In fact, it offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.8 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below the national average.