Highland Nursing Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility really outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with an A. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 94.93671 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Nursing scores are mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a low total compared with most other nursing homes. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

Moving on to the last area, this facility was given a C for short-term care, which is generally an acceptable rating. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. It doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.