Hendrick Skilled Nursing Facility

In addition to being a great nursing home overall, it also received A+ inspections recently. Its inspections are nearly perfect. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many elite grades, this facility was given a strong short-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A in this area. Short-term care grades are generally employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. In determining our nursing scores, we factor in both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we rated was long-term care, where this facility received a B+. This finished off a very impressive report card. Very few nursing homes earned a B+ or higher in each of our categories. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. One of the data points we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.