Hemingford Community Care Center

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also received an A+ inspection grade. This is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a nursing home. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. We weren't able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional reason we assessed this facility so highly is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is just about as dominant as it gets in this category. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 83.333336 percent of its residents. This is a few points below what we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. The nursing rating weighs quite a few components, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 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 facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In the last category we assessed, this facility received an impressive grade grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility finished off a very strong profile. Our short-term care grades are probably most important for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.