Henderson Health & Rehabilitation Center

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to this facility's list of strengths, it also was awarded a first-rate long-term care grade. We awarded them a dominant grade of A- in this area. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.006645 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. This nursing home was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1.4 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses worked with patients, in determining our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as minimizing major falls. This facility performed admirably in this statistic. Avoiding serious falls is generally a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home offers enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The final area we analyzed was short-term care, which is this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a D in that area. Of course, this score hurt the facility's overall profile to some degree. Our short-term care grades are vital for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength either for this nursing home. We found that just 48.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is below average.