Hermitage Nursing & Rehab

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it does not look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among the reasons we rated this facility so well is that it was given a strong long-term care score. In fact, long-term care ended up being its second highest category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 79.85612 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat lower than we expected but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to our third category, this nursing home also received a score of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is typically a meaningful assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final category we scored was nursing, where this nursing home received a grade of B-. This was this nursing home's least impressive area. This is still not a major area of concern. We weighed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below average. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. While this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this area. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.