Hennis Care Centre of Dover

We want to note that this facility earned a far better grade for short-term care than its overall score. It received one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of A-. The nursing score consists of many datapoints, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also awarded this nursing home a solid score in the category of long-term care, with a C. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated only 82.87037 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on our final category of inspections, we gave this facility a D. This turned out to be this facility's worst grade and it really pulled its overall grade down. Our inspection rating is based on the facility's government inspection reports. Since the data is collected by government inspectors, we weight it heavily in our assessment. One of the most important factors in assessing inspection reports is deficiencies. We suggest you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home had 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This typically suggests that a bad performance has been an issue for several years.