Hempfield Manor

On top of earning a great overall rating, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is based on the facility's recent inspections. We awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

An additional strong feature for this nursing home is that it was given an impressive short-term care score. Indeed, this wound up being its second best category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. It fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 52.2 percent of its patients returning home.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. We weighed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in calculating our grade in this category. This facility averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is a very low figure. Finally, we also factored some quality measures into our nursing scores. This place was relatively weak in two of the major areas we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally decent indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. This nursing home was given a B- for the category. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 99.082565 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 2.32 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had more complicated patients.