Hazard Health and Rehabilitation Center

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that area, with an A+. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home also received a positive grade in our long-term care category. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B+ in that area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.48276 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's second worse score was short-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a well below average grade. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.3 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.

The next area we graded was nursing, which turned out to be this facility's weakest category. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is obviously concerning. There are numerous data points included in this area. Most of the criteria are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.