Hempfield Manor

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ in our short-term care category. This is one of our more favorable scores. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below the national average. Lastly, nursing ratings also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

This nursing home's weakest category is long-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. For this category, we gave this facility a D. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility gave the vaccine to 99.13295 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable figure. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.