Hayward Convalescent Hospital

On top of earning a great overall score, this facility really excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A. Our nursing rating analyzes many components, but the main consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home 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.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the category of short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a B. It actually fared better than most nursing homes in this category. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. It does not appear that this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. 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 patients returned home.

We would also like to draw your attention to this facility's strong inspection rating. This facility earned a B in this category, which is one of our better grades. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

The next area we assessed was long-term care, which was this nursing home's worst category. We gave this facility a D in that area. Of course, this grade hurt the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 85.39326 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points below what we expected. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.