Hicks Golden Years Nursing Home

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for the area of inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this facility a grade of A- for our long-term care score. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.674416 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's next most favorable area was its short-term care score, where it was given a grade of C. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. It does not look like this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

This facility's weakest area is nursing, which is the last category we scored. We gave it an abysmal F in this category. In spite of a few favorable grades in other areas, this grade is still somewhat of a concern so we felt obligated to make sure you are aware. Our nursing score is based on several data points, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Unfortunately, this place also didn't perform as well as we hoped in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at for this category.