Hayward Health Services

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Nursing grades are largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 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 generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also would like to note the fact that this nursing home received a high-end score of A- in our short-term care area. Short-term care grades are commonly used to score a facility's rehabilitation services To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The final category we assessed is long-term care. This facility was awarded a favorable long-term care grade in our assessment, with a grade of C. Although this isn't as elite as a few of its other category grades, this is still a respectable score for this area. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the data points we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.