Hendrick Skilled Nursing Facility

In addition to receiving a quality overall grade, this facility also earned excellent government inspections recently. We gave it one of our best grades in that category, with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its elite resume, this facility also performed well in our short-term care area. In fact, we gave it a score of A for the area. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Nursing ratings are mostly tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the fourth category, this nursing home also excelled in the long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in this category. This rounded out a first-rate profile. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were not able to locate this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.