Henderson Health & Rehabilitation Center

Even though we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its high marks in long-term care. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this area, which salvaged an otherwise lacking profile. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 97.231834 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this facility an C. In computing our nursing ratings, we weigh both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this metric. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving residents even once per day.

This facilities third most favorable category was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. This is basically a middle of the pack grade in this area. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The real question is whether this adversely impacted quality of care. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Looking to our last category of inspections, we gave this facility a grade of just just D, which is a relatively poor grade. Our inspection grade is based on the facility's inspections. Since this data is collected by government inspectors, we place a great deal of weight on it in our overall grades. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This particular nursing home had 7 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines amounting to over $100,000. This often indicates that a nursing home's poor performance has been an issue for multiple years.